Three out of four ain’t bad, but the feds don’t grade on a curve. Heidi Palermo, unwilling medic to her family of bloodthirsty street warriors, has taken the test repeatedly, trying to prove she’s smart, strong, sterile, and sane. Now, only residents who pass the feds’ 4-S test can escape Exile’s heavily fortified borders. Twenty years ago, a toxic spill in the small Texas town of Exile poisoned residents with permanent rage. In addition, Lemberg, a Le Guin Feminist Science Fiction Fellow, provides a retrospective essay analyzing Le Guin’s nine full-length poetry collections. Poets from around the world contribute perspectives that both honor and challenge Le Guin’s legacy. Le Guin, her work, or their own reactions to Le Guin or her work editors Lemberg and Bradley put the poets in conversation with each other and with readers. Distinct from the cosmic worldbuilding of her science fiction and fantasy, Le Guin’s poems were “smaller scale, more intimate, more fragile.”Īs a tribute anthology, Climbing Lightly Through Forests hosts multiple conversations: poets respond to Ursula K. Although poetry framed Le Guin’s life, her poetic oeuvre never garnered the same acclaim as her fiction. Le Guin, celebrated for her speculative fiction, was also a prolific poet. Climbing Lightly Through Forests, A Poetry Anthology Honoring Ursula K.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |