Books from Maria Dahvana Headley Crafting with Ursula Conversation
By Between the Covers Podcast
By Between the Covers Podcast
Beowulf: A New Translation
Maria Dahvana Headley
$16.00 $14.88the main book of Maria's we talk about today
Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary
J. R. R. Tolkien
$17.99 $16.73J.R.R. Tolkien's never-meant to be published translation of and commentary about Beowulf
The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations
Toni Morrison
$16.95 $15.76Toni Morrison's essay Grendel & His Mother can be found here
Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places
Ursula K. Le Guin
$17.00 $15.81I quote from 2 essays in from this collection of Le Guin's: 1)Reciprocity of Prose & Poetry and 2)Text, Silence, Performance. All of her poetry collections are excellent but if you had to choose one this also contains iconic essays of hers that we discussed in other episodes (including The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction & The Fisherwoman's Daughter)
Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching: A Book about the Way and the Power of the Way
Ursula K. Le Guin
$16.95 $15.76Le Guin worked on this rendering of the Tao Te Ching throughout much of her adult life.
The Twins, the Dream/Las Gemelas, El Sueno
Diana Bellessi and Ursula K. Le Guin
$8.95The co-translated side-by-side poems of Argentinian poet Diana Bellesi and Le Guin
Selected Poems of Gabriela Mistral
Gabriela Mistral
$34.95 $32.50Le Guin's translations of Chilean Nobel Laureate Gabriela Mistral
Lavinia
Ursula K. Le Guin
$19.99 $18.59the main book-length work of Le Guin's we talk about today (her final novel)
The Odyssey
Homer
$18.95 $17.62Emily Wilson's translation (the 1st woman to translate The Odyssey into English)...i talk about her introduction and translator's note which are both remarkable
Circe
Madeline Miller
$16.99 $15.80Madeleine Miller's retelling and centering of Circe in Homer's epic
The Mere Wife
Maria Dahvana Headley
$18.00 $16.74Maria's contemporary feminist retelling of Beowulf (as a novel) that foregrounds all the women from it
Cheek by Jowl
Ursula K. Le Guin
$16.00We briefly mention the Le Guin essay whose title, The Critics, The Monsters and the Fantasists, is a riff on the title of Tolkien's Beowulf essay. it can be found here (this collection is one we focus on deeply in the William Alexander episode)
Kalpa Imperial: The Greatest Empire That Never Was
Angélica Gorodischer
$16.00 $14.88We don't discuss this Le Guin translation, the first of Argentinean writer Angelica Gorodischer's 19 books to be brought into English. A fantastical novel whose arrival in English was met with critical delight. But it is important to note