The culture is at a generally medieval level, with traditional crafts but no advanced technology. The books in the trilogy share the same imaginary world their plots are set among small city states and independent polities, in a fertile region on the western shore of a continental land mass, in an otherwise unspecified world. Powers won the 2008 Nebula Award for Best Novel. Gifts won the PEN Center USA 2005 Children's literature award. Each book has different main characters and settings, but the books are linked by some recurring characters and locations. It consists of three books: Gifts (2004), Voices (2006), and Powers (2007). (Jan.Annals of the Western Shore is a young adult fantasy series by Ursula K. In their own languages, the poets' magic shines, as in Bellessi's adventurous ''Cruising the Equator'' and Le Guin's ''Dos Poesias para Mi Diana,'' which divulges not only the title for the book, but the intimate nature of poetry and this collaboration. In ''The House of the Spider: A Spell to Weave,'' Le Guin states: ''They are together,/ the brother,/ no other.'' Bellessi changes ''no other'' to ''el humano,'' shucking Le Guin's specific to express her own wider concerns. you know, I would have made love to you.'' Bellessi, in turn, overpowers Le Guin's direct voice, at times transforming her meaning entirely. sabias, que te hubiera hecho el amor?'' loses the poignant effect of the narrator's looking back at a youthful episode when Le Guin turns it into the statement ''You know, when I saw you in Paris. For instance, the question ''?Sabias/ cuando te encontre en Paris. In Le Guin's hands, Bellessi's internal rhythms are lost and words are stripped of layers of meanings.

The intrinsic value of this quirky edition lies in the bilingual presentation, for the two poets' success in reaching cross-cultural audiences is limited by their lack of expertise in translation. Through correspondence, Le Guin, a prolific American writer (The Left Hand of Darkness Unlocking the Air and Other Stories, etc.), and Bellessi, an Argentinean poet, collaborated on translating each other's poems to produce this intimate exchange of language and culture.

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