Words are my matter: writings on life and books - ursula k. le guin

A bright and wide-ranging collection of essays, reviews, talks, and more fromone of todays best and most thoughtful writers.

A collection of essays on life and literature, from one of the most iconic authors and astute critics in contemporary letters.

Words Are My Matter is essential reading: a collection of talks, essays, and criticism by Ursula K.

Le Guin, a literary legend and unparalleled voice of our social conscience.

Here she investigates the depth and breadth of contemporary fiction--and, through the lens of literature, gives us a way of exploring the world around us.

In Freedom, Le Guin notes: Hard times are coming, when well be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now .

to other ways of being, and even imagine real grounds for hope.

Well need writers who can remember freedom--poets, visionaries--realists of a larger reality.

Le Guin was one of those authors and in Words Are My Matter she gives us just that: a vision of a better reality, fueled by the power and might and hope of language and literature.