Always Coming Home

by Ursula K. Le Guin

Illustrated by Margaret Chodos-Irvine

Music by Todd Barton

Music & Poetry of the Kesh

• Now available as MP3s (plus ebooks of the liner notes, lyrics, and translations) at Book View Café.
• Free samples: Heron Dance and Twilight Song, at Book View Café Blog

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

• “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
• Kesh Music by Todd Barton (New 11/1/06)

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

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

Website Copyright © 2013 by Ursula K. Le Guin