Reviews

Wild Angels by Ursula K. Le Guin

asililydying's review

3.75

Of all the lost
children I was chosen
to return. O no choice
of mine!
                I chose to sing.

grace_machine's review

3.0

It feels like poetry either sings in you or it doesn’t. This mostly did.

divadiane's review

4.0

Most of these poems from UKL’s first published book of poetry wouldn’t be considered speculative poetry, but there’s not so much that is terribly realistic either. She herself said that she didn’t have any control to make her poems SF or Fantasy. Many are very dreamlike, and all are imbued with Le Guin’s gorgeous language. Several I don’t profess to have understood at all. A few of my favorite poems were “The Darkness”, “The Anger”, “Ars Lunga”, “Arboreal” and “Dreampoem”. And probably several from the first half that I didn’t make note of here on GR.

I’m sure I’ll return to these poems one day.

gillygab's review

3.0

I wish you could give half stars. This is a solid 3.5 for me. I don't like it as much as some of Le Guin's other books of poetry, but there were still a handful here that really spoke to me.