Blue Moon over Thurman Street
by Ursula K. Le Guin
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The famous science fiction author turns to poetry about her hometown.Tags
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This unique project combines photographs by Roger Dorband of Thurman Street in Portland, OR, and the poetry that they inspired Le Guin to write. The goal was to chronicle the people and places of the street. It was a really interesting project, but neither the poetry, nor the photos were particularly moving to me. I did enjoy the additional comments from the collaborators about each photo/poem at the end of the book. I'm traveling to Portland later this year and so I'm glad I read it. It was a glimpse into the city I'm so excited to see.
Beyond our understanding is the changing form of that tree; we do not know its beginning, or its ending, or its roots. - Quoted in Blue Moon
Beyond our understanding is the changing form of that tree; we do not know its beginning, or its ending, or its roots. - Quoted in Blue Moon
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Ursula K. Le Guin was born Ursula Kroeber in Berkeley, California on October 21, 1929. She received a bachelor's degree from Radcliffe College in 1951 and a master's degree in romance literature of the Middle Ages and Renaissance from Columbia University in 1952. She won a Fulbright fellowship in 1953 to study in Paris, where she met and married show more Charles Le Guin. Her first science-fiction novel, Rocannon's World, was published in 1966. Her other books included the Earthsea series, The Left Hand of Darkness, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia, The Lathe of Heaven, Four Ways to Forgiveness, and The Telling. A Wizard of Earthsea received an American Library Association Notable Book citation, a Horn Book Honor List citation, and the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1979. She received the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters in 2014. She also received the Nebula Award and the Hugo Award. She also wrote books of poetry, short stories collections, collections of essays, children's books, a guide for writers, and volumes of translation including the Tao Te Ching of Lao Tzu and selected poems by Gabriela Mistral. She died on January 22, 2018 at the age of 88. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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