LEAVES by Ursula K. Le Guin
- Meri Utkovska
- Dec 20, 2023
- 2 min read
Years do odd things to identity.
What does it mean to say
I am that child in the photograph
at Kishamish in 1935?
Might as well say I am the shadow
of a leaf of the acacia tree
felled seventy years ago
moving on the page the child reads.
Might as well say I am the words she read
or the words I wrote in other years,
flicker of shade and sunlight
as the wind moves through the leaves.
Copyright © 2018 by Ursula K. Le Guin.
About Ursula K. Le Guin
Born in Berkley, California on October 21, 1929, Ursula Kroeber Le Guin was an American author, essayist, short story writer and poet. She authored over 20 novels, several books of essays, over 100 short stories, and a dozen books of poetry.
Le Guin earned her BA from Radcliffe College and her MA in Romance Literature from Columbia University. She then studied in Paris on a Fulbright fellowship and began her doctoral studies, which she abandoned later after marrying her husband, historian Charles Le Guin in 1953.
Writing Style and Influences
Le Guin started writing full-time in the late 1950s, and her fiction gravitated toward the genre of science fiction. Strongly influenced by Taoism, cultural anthropology, feminism, and the writings of Carl Jung, Le Guin explored our own world through fantasy, philosophical inquiry, the search for balance and equilibrium. As a child, she found Lao-tzu’s Tao Te Ching in her father’s library, and remained deeply moved by Taoist principles throughout her life.
First published in 1959, Le Guin was best known for her works of speculative fiction, including science fiction works set in her Hainish universe, as well as the Earthsea fantasy series.
Le Guin's Poetry and Awards
Le Guin's poetry collections include:
Late in the Day: Poems 2010-2014,
Finding My Elegy: New and Selected Poems (2012),
Incredible Good Fortune (2006), and
Sixty Odd (1999).
Le Guin's incredible imagination and commitment towards her work earned her six Nebula Awards, seven Hugo Awards, and SFWA’s Grand Master, along with the PEN/Malamud and many other awards.
She died on January 22nd, 2018.
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