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The January 2018 death of Le Guin was a loss not just for sf and fantasy readers but for American letters; her range included nonfiction and poetry, always unhackneyed and perceptive. Poets, enchanted by the difficulty of language, often work by indirection—humor, irony, surprise—while novelists take pains to convey meaning, even when they write poetry, and Le Guin was of that class, with writers such as May Sarton, Reynolds Price, and Willa Cather. This fine collection, c...Log In or Sign Up to Read More