Buffalo Gals and Other Animal Presences
Buffalo Gals and Other Animal Presences is a collection of short stories and poems by American writer Ursula K. Le Guin, first published in 1987 by Capra Press. It includes the author's introductions to the pieces in each section of the collection. The book has a theme of works about "animal, vegetable, or mineral."
It was reviewed in Locus, Foundation, and Analog Science Fiction and Fact.
Contents
- Introduction
- "Come Into Animal Presences" 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"
- *"The Wife's Story"
- 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"
- *"The Direction of the Road"
- *"Vaster Than Empires and More Slow"
- 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"
- *"Horse Camp"
- 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"
- *"The Author of the Acacia Seeds and Other Extracts from the Journal of Therolinguistics"
- X."May's Lion"
- *"May's Lion"
- XI. Rilke's "Eighth Duino Elegy" and "She Unnames Them"
- *"The Eighth Elegy"
- *"She Unnames Them"