Changing Planes (inscribed to poet Carolyn Kizer)
NY: Harcourt, 2003. First edition. Hardcover. A nice Northwest association copy, inscribed on the title page: "To Carolyn [Kizer], my lioness, with love from Ursula, November '03." Born in Spokane, Kizer was a fierce feminist poet who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1985 for Yin. She studied with Theodore Roethke at the University of Washington and ultimately ending up in Sonoma, CA. Le Guin and Kizer were longtime friends (see for example this discussion of their relationship). Le Guin called Kizer's poetry “intensely, splendidly oral, wanting to be read aloud, best of all to be read or roared by the lion herself.” Changing Planes is a collection of linked stories, each describing a different world visited from an airport by the same main character, Sita Dulip. A nice twist on contemporary travel. It won the Locus Award for Best Collection in 2004. A fine book in a near fine jacket. Kizer has noted the mention of “a poet“ on the rear free endpaper with a matching marginal line on page 106. Fine / Near fine. Item #1822
ISBN: 9780151009718
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