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25 Poems on the Death of Ursula K. Le Guin

M. F. McAuliffe

Portland-based writer M. F. McAuliffe was shocked by the death of Ursula K. Le Guin more than she could have imagined because she'd never imagined it at all. These twenty five unconventional elegies, written over the course of the following twelve months, are the aftershock.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Gobq LLC
  • Publish Date: Nov 29th, 2019
  • Pages: 68
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 6.00in - 4.00in - 0.14in - 0.10lb
  • EAN: 9781684544714
  • Categories: Subjects & Themes - Death, Grief, LossWomen Authors

About the Author

McAuliffe, M. F.: - M. F. McAuliffe was born & educated in Adelaide and Melbourne, has an Honours degree in English & graduate work in photography, film, & anthropology. In 2002 she co-founded the multi-lingual, award-winning, Portland-based magazine, Gobshite Quarterly with RV Branham, & continues there as co-editor. She made her US debut in Damon Knight's Clarion Awards, & has since co-authored Fighting Monsters (with Judith Steele, Melbourne, 1998), the artist's book Golems Waiting Redux (with Daniel Duford, Portland, 2011), & supplied the libretto for La Mama Courthouse's production Orpheus: an Australian Tragedy (Carlton, 2000); the text of Crucifix i., along with a photograph, appear in the Yoko Ono-curated installation, "Arising", 7 Oct., 2016 through 5 Feb., 2017, at Reykjavik Art Museum. She is currently editing & publishing some titles for Reprobate/GobQ Books. Her most recent book is I'm Afraid of Americans, from shoegaze.

Praise for this book

The poems are heart-rending and at the same time full of love.

-- Luisa Valenzuela, author of Clara, Strange Things Happen Here, The Lizard's Tail, Deathcats

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"Each day the world got a day's worth of worse, and went on," McAuliffe writes, and this sensibility of survival, of "climbing chalk cliffs by front teeth alone" gives us this -- a particular grief, a critique and context, a poetic something-more, on the death of Ursula K. Le Guin. A monumental monument, a sending forth of some Great Ship, a pain-spattered sunset, a howling -- and more.

-- Jenny Forrester, author, Narrow River, Wide Sky, and A Memoir and Soft Hearted Stories: Seeking Saviors, Cowboy Stylists, and Other Fallacies of Authoritarianism