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chloekg's review
3.0
In her craft and her public courage, Ursula Le Guin created such a beautiful and vulnerable space for her readers that entering her writing feels like a gift from a beloved friend. This is the first collection of her poetry I’ve read. Her novels and nonfiction essays I love for their sharp politics and playful depth. These poems are more daily life and almost more alienating. Where her novels invite the reader to adventure and forge new paths with the characters, this collection of poems felt like being a new acquaintance invited to share a cup of coffee with one of her old friends. That she has such confidence in making those moments vulnerable is a powerful testament. These poems were for her own satisfaction, yet she so easily exposed them to the world. This text was an unusual experience in poetry and all the more pleasure for it.
maenad_wordsmith's review
A few of my favorites from this collection: "For Gabriela Mistral," "Hexagram 49," "A Traveler at a Lake in New England," "Entanglements," "Repulse Monkey," and "College."
stenaros's review
3.0
Poems, she means. But I think the title is a play on age too. Some good ones, some of which will be appearing soon on my poetry post.
exhausted_hedgewitch's review
challenging
emotional
4.0
The first part, 'Circling to Descend', I found much less impressive than the rest of her poetic work, but the second part, 'The Mirror Gallery', was deeply moving and subversive--Le Guin at her best.
edward_evjen's review
5.0
It felt like meeting interesting people. It is a lot of portraits of people in Ursula's life, including a black unfaithful cat.
johannah's review
5.0
LeGuin's poems are big, even when they are short. Each is a short story, or maybe even a novella - the kind of poem you read and then sit around for a while trying to finish the story.
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