A Poetry Collection From Ursula K. Le Guin Is So Far So Good

The Washington Post points out Ursula K. Le Guin's posthumous So Far So Good (Copper Canyon, 2018) as one of the best poetry collections to read this month, alongside other titles by Rae Armantrout, Emily Jungmin Yoon, Catherine Barnett, and Christian Wiman. Of Le Guin's book, Elizabeth Lund writes that fans "will recognize some of the motifs here — cats, wind, strong women — as well as her exploration of the intersection between soul and body, the knowable and the unknown." 

And a lovely anticipation for Armantrout:

Wobble

 

A finalist for the National Book Award in poetry, Rae Armantrout’s “Wobble”(Wesleyan) is a collection of tight, chiseled poems that forces readers to consider how greed, excess and lack of critical thought have led to environmental destruction and a nation wobbling toward the edge of collapse. In the poem “Normal,” the self-absorbed speaker explains: “I don’t feel bad/ about crushing others/ to achieve my goals.” If society allows such destructive attitudes to prevail, we will all be to blame, as these poems show.

Read about all of these books right here.