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Buffalo Gals and Other Animal Presences

The bestselling author of the Earthsea trilogy, The Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed presents a collection of short stories and poems that takes the reader into a magical, whimsical world where the line between human and animal is quite different from our world. Winner of the Hugo and World Fantasy Awards.

Contents:

"Come into animal presence / Denise Levertov —

Buffalo gals, won't you come out tonight —

Three rock poems: Basalt — Flints —

Mt. St. Helens/ Omphalos —

Mazes —

Wife's stories —

Five vegetable poems —

Torrey pines reserve —

Lewis and Clarke and after —

West Texas —

Xmas over —

Crown of Laurel —

Direction of the road —

Vaster than empires and more slow —

Seven bird and beast poems —

What is going on in the Oaks —

For Ted —

Found poem —

Totem —

Winter downs —

Man eater —

Sleeping out —

White donkey —

Horse camp —

Four cat poems —

Tabby Lorenzo —

Black Leonard in negative space —

Conversation with a silence —

For Leonard, Darko, and Burton Watson —

Schrodinger's cat —

"Author of the Acacia seeds" and other extracts from the journal of the journal of the association of Therolinguistics —

May's lion —

Eighth elegy, from "Duino elegies" of R.M. Rilke —

She unnames them.

"A spirited, gracefully polemical introduction and the final story, "She Unnames Them", frame this collection of fiction and poetry, placing it in a natural but unsentimental light. These are not really "talking animal" stories: they are about human apprehension of natural creation (including rocks and plants) and the relations this apprehension governs; or, how communication makes communities. Seven of ten stories and seven of 19 poems having already been published, while a couple of pieces read like working drafts. Among the best pieces is the title story; like many of the others, it works its effect through a reversal of the usual (human) point of view." — Library Journal.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 236
  • Publisher
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780451450494
  • Genres
  • fantasy, fiction, poetry, animals, anthologies
  • Release date
  • 1990