Always Coming Home

by Ursula K. Le Guin

Illustrated by Margaret Chodos-Irvine

Music by Todd Barton

Always Coming Home to Spain

• The Spanish guitarist and composer Àlvaro Barriuso has been setting some of the songs and dances from Always Coming Home, using the Spanish translation of the poems. The LP and digital download of his settings will be released on May 27th, 2016. He recorded this teaser with friends.
  
  
  
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Kesh Maps

• Some of the Paths around Sinshan Creek
• Interpretation of map of the paths around Sinsham Creek.
• The Valley of the Na.
• Talismanic Map, Na Valley.
• Places known to the Kesh.
• The Inland Sea.

Excerpts

• “Intiation Song From Finders Lodge,” from Always Coming Home, read by Ursula K. Le Guin (video)
• “Sun Dance Poem,” read by Ursula K. Le Guin (new 3/23/08)
• “Twilight Song,” read by Ursula K. Le Guin (new 3/16/08)
• A story: “Dira”
• A poem: “A Meditation in the Eighth House in Early Spring, by Ire of Sinshan”
• A poem: “This Stone”
• An essay: “Yaivkach: The City of Mind”
• Excerpt from “Stone Telling,” from Always Coming Home. [Offsite link to University of California Press]
• A Map: The Town of Sinshan
• Glossary sample

Always Coming Home
University of California Press
February 2001
ISBN: 0-520-22735-2

Always Coming Home, Copyright © 1985 by Ursula K. Le Guin

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