I've only reached the quartet, which I reread recently - the last (which I see is the first of the next trilogy) is amazing, I think - certainly "tells more than it says" is one way of saying it! A >Dom > >aside from having enjoyed the poem, I'd like tpo tell you that two Earthsea >books came out last year: Tales from Earthsea, which also includes a >history from 'the archive' & The Other Wind, a novel. Concluding the sexond >trilogy, in which the other story, of the women of Earthsea, & their >powers, gets told. Wonderful, especially the apparently plain style that >echoes folktales & tells more than it says... > >Doug > >Douglas Barbour >Department of English >University of Alberta >Edmonton Alberta Canada T6G 2E5 >(h) [780] 436 3320 (b) [780] 492 0521 >http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/dbhome.htm > >Cinder of the lexical drift. > > Susan Howe -- Alison Croggon Home page http://www.users.bigpond.com/acroggon/ Masthead http://au.geocities.com/masthead_2/