Ursula K. Le Guin (1929–2018) published twenty-two novels and seven poetry collections, as well as short story collections, books for children and young adults, screenplays, and essays, though she remains best known as America’s greatest science fiction writer. Her first major work in the genre, The Left Hand of Darkness (1969), is still in print. Among her best-known fantasy works are the six Books of Earthsea, including The Farthest Shore, winner of the National Book Award. One of the few women to become a Grandmaster of Science Fiction, she also received the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters in 2014.

Photograph by Martin Wood Kolish.

The Fine Arts and Other Poems

by Ursula K. Le Guin

The Fine Arts

Judging beauty, which is keenest,
Eye or heart or mind or penis?
Lust is blindest, feeling kindest,
Sight is strongest, thought goes wrongest.

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