In love with words and poetry; it’s a matter of life and death A word is dead When it is said, Some say. I say it just Begins to live That day. Emily Dickinson Photo: “Emily Dickinson’s white dress“ Ursula K. Le Guin insister-ed that “love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone, it…
Month: January 2022
The monster within revisited: A villanelle
At 2:18am At 2:18am the world and her heart are ever so dark, thoughts circling like a hungry pack of wolves, “Fancy a dance with death?” she hears the night remark. The wind grazes her with its teeth and taunts her, while her sister in the room next door snores and slumbers with…
Shelving stories, storying shelves
Shelves hold things … Ursula K. Le Guin maintained that words and books “hold things” and bear meaning – just like a medicine bundle, together “holding things in a particular, powerful relation to one another and to us.” Wandering through the lowly lit stacks of secondhand books in Archives Fine Books in Charlotte Street on…
She decided to resist and insistered on structure
When women speak truly they speak subversively — they can’t help it: if you’re underneath, if you’re kept down, you break out, you subvert. Ursula K. Le Guin, Bryn Mawr College commencement speech, 1986, published in the essay collection Dancing At The Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places, 1989. Ursula K. Le…