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Words Are My Matter: Writings on Life and Books
Words Are My Matter Writings on Life and Books Author:Ursula K. Le Guin 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... more » 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 we?ll 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. We?ll 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.« less