Ursula K. Le Guin : Late in the Day
Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry
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The Anti-Techno Fix
I love the repetition in that poem. The repetition of hand and held and hold really evoking this sense of a repeated fellowship with this object. So when you talk in the forward about the techno fix and being against the idea of the techno fix, I bet a lot of people assume that means you're anti-technology. Can you parse that out for us? Because here it seems like the pestle is a technology just as language is a technology. It's a great technology. You can't improve on them for what they do. A kitchen knife does what a kitchen knife does in human hands and you can't beat it.
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