Buffalo Gals, and Other Animal Presences

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Buffalo Gals, and Other Animal Presences (1987) is a collection of short stories by Ursula K. Le Guin.

Contents

Note: Original publication dates and attributions are in parentheses.

• Introduction
• "Come Into Animal Presence" by Denise Levertov

I. Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight

II. "Three Rock Poems

"The Basalt"

"Flints"

"Mt. St Helens / Omphalos"

III. 'The Wife's Story' and 'Mazes'

Mazes (1975, Epoch)

The Wife's Story (1982, The Compass Rose)

IV. Five Vegetable Poems

"Torrey Pines Reserve"

"Lewis and Clark and After"

"West Texas"

"Xmas Over"

"The Crown of Laurel"

V. 'The Direction of the Road' and 'Vaster than Empires'

Direction of the Road (1973, Orbit 12)

Vaster Than Empires and More Slow (1971, New Dimensions 1)

VI. Seven Bird and Beast Poems

"What Is Going on in the Oaks"

"For Ted"

"Found Poem"

"Totem"

"Winter Downs"

"The Man Eater"

"Sleeping Out"

VII. 'The White Donkey' and 'Horse Camp'

The White Donkey (1980, TriQuarterly)

Horse Camp (1986, The New Yorker)

VIII. Four Cat Poems

"Tabby Lorenzo"

"Black Leonard in Negative Space"

"A Conversation With a Silence"

"For Leonard, Darko, and Burton Watson"

IX. 'Schrödinger's Cat' and 'The Author of the Acacia Seeds'

• Schrödinger's Cat (1974, Universe 5)
• "The Author of the Acacia Seeds" and Other Extracts from the Journal of the Association of Therolinguistics (1974, Fellowship of the Stars)

X. "'May's Lion'"

"May's Lion"

XI. Rilke's 'Eighth Duino Elegy' and 'She Unnames Them'

"The Eighth Elegy, from the Duino Elegies of R.M. Rilke"

"She Unnames Them."

• She Unnames Them (1985, The New Yorker)

Editions

• 1987: Capra
• 1988: NAL
• 1988 Sept.: First Plume Printing, ISBN 0-452-26480-4