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Ursula K. Le Guin’s Book of Cats

A full-color album bringing together Ursula K. Le Guin’s poems, cartoons, drawings, and prose pieces about the nearly two dozen cats who shared her life

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In the wise and witty poems, letters, and drawings gathered here, legendary writer Ursula K. Le Guin celebrates, contemplates, and elegizes the many cats who shared her life. The Art of Bunditsu offers a “tabbist” meditation on the principles of cat arrangement. A richly imagined correspondence between Le Guin’s cat and those of her daughter details the Five Deliberations that cats spend their lives studying. Cat T’ai Chi is illustrated in a series of sketches; the Historic First Issue! of Supermouse Comix lives once more; and whimsical postcards depict Ballooncats and Other Fancies. These rare and hard-to-find works are framed by twenty-six poems, many featuring Le Guin’s own drawings of their subjects, to form a one-of-a-kind purrpurri of all things feline from a writer who was enchanted by the inscrutable mystery of cats.

Ursula K. Le Guin (1929–2018) was the recipient of multiple Hugo, Nebula, Locus, and World Fantasy awards. In 2014, she was awarded the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. During her lifetime, she was chosen by at least nineteen cats.

This special publication features full-color printing throughout, full-cloth binding, acid-free paper, and a unique design with specifications differing from those of Library of America series titles.
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The Art of Bunditsu

POEMS
Black Leonard in Negative Space
For Leonard, Darko, and Burton Watson
Tabby Lorenzo
A Conversation with a Silence
Don Diego
A Little Death

Supermouse Comix Historic First Issue!

Ballooncats and Other Fancies

POEMS
Neko at Twenty
To Neko: Two Old Ladies on the Same Bed
Sleeping with Cats
Cat Philip
From Lorenzo
Lorenzo/Orion
Lorenzo
Entanglements

Cat T’ai Chi

The Cat Letters

POEMS
Nine Lines, August 9
from Love Songs in Late May: May 22
I Think of Them
Grace
Raksha
Morning in Joseph, Oregon
Doggerel for My Cat
Written in the Dark
Pard’s Apparel
The Cat
Lullaby
from Falling: Company

The Lives of Ursula’s Cats

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ISBN: 978-1-59853-829-8 104 pages

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