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by Guin, Ursula K. Le | Literary essays
Published 06/11/2025 by Canongate Books (Canongate Canons) in the United Kingdom as part of the Canons series
Paperback | 336 pages
Hard times are coming, when we’ll be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now, can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies 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 . .
. Words Are My Matter is a selection of Ursula K. Le Guin’s best writing on literature, articulating with precision and passion her belief in the social and political value of storytelling – especially in hard times.
In doing so, and with her characteristic spirit, Le Guin offers both a glimmer of hope and a set of operating instructions for a life lived with meaning.
