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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 (1961) *I. " Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight" (1987, '' The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction'') *II. Three Rock Poems **"The Basalt" (1982, ''Open Places 33'') **"Flints" **"Mt. St. Helens/Omphalos" (1975, ''Wild Angels'') *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" (1981, ''Hard Words'') **"Lewis and Clark and After" (1987, ''The Seattle Review'') **"West Texas" * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ursula K
Ursula may refer to: * Ursula (name), feminine name and a list of people and fictional characters with the name * ''Ursula'' (album), an album by American jazz pianist Mal Waldron *Ursula (crater), a crater on Titania, a moon of Uranus *Ursula (detention center), processing facility for unaccompanied minors in McAllen, Texas *Ursula (The Little Mermaid), a fictional character who appears in ''The Little Mermaid'' (1989) *Ursula Channel, body of water in British Columbia, Canada * 375 Ursula, a large main-belt asteroid * HMS ''Ursula'', a destroyer and two submarines that served with the Royal Navy *Tropical Storm Ursula (other), a typhoon, two cyclones, and a tropical depression, all in the Pacific Ocean * Ursula, signals intelligence system used by the Finnish Defence Intelligence Agency See also *Saint Ursula *Urszula Urszula may refer to: * Franciszka Urszula Radziwiłłowa (1705–1753), Polish-Lithuania-Belarusian noble dramatist and writer * Urszula Augustyn (born 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Wife's Story
"The Wife's Story" is a short story written by Ursula K. Le Guin. Plot summary Written in a vernacular first-person narrative, the title character (who is eventually revealed to be a wolf) describes her beloved spouse and their idyllic family life in the past tense, except during the new moon, when he mysteriously disappeared. She then relates the night she witnessed his metamorphosis into a human and screamed in horror, resulting in her family and neighbors chasing and killing him. Interpretation The story is unusual for its point-of-view: Of the many books and stories on werewolves In folklore, a werewolf (), or occasionally lycanthrope (; ; uk, Вовкулака, Vovkulaka), is an individual that can shapeshift into a wolf (or, especially in modern film, a therianthropic hybrid wolf-like creature), either purposely or ..., few are written from the perspective of wolves. Le Guin goes to great lengths to conceal the nature of the narrator, fully exploiting the reader's a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rainer Maria Rilke
René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke (4 December 1875 – 29 December 1926), shortened to Rainer Maria Rilke (), was an Austrian poet and novelist. He has been acclaimed as an idiosyncratic and expressive poet, and is widely recognized as a significant writer in the German language.Biography: Rainer Maria Rilke 1875–1926 Poetry Foundation website. Retrieved 2 February 2013. His work has been seen by critics and scholars as having undertones of , exploring themes of subjective experience and disbelief. His writings include one novel, several collections of poetry and several volumes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duino Elegies
The ''Duino Elegies'' (german: Duineser Elegien) are a collection of ten elegies written by the Bohemian-Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke. He was then "widely recognized as one of the most lyrically intense German-language poets", and began the elegies in 1912 while a guest of Princess Marie von Thurn und Taxis at Duino Castle, on the Adriatic Sea. The poems were dedicated to the Princess upon their publication in 1923. During this ten-year period, the elegies languished incomplete for long stretches of time as Rilke had frequent bouts with severe depression—some of which were related to the events of World War I and being conscripted into military service. Aside from brief periods of writing in 1913 and 1915, he did not return to the work until a few years after the war ended. With a sudden, renewed burst of frantic writing which he described as a "boundless storm, a hurricane of the spirit"—he completed the collection in February 1922 while staying at Château de Mu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Universe (anthology Series)
Universe was a series of seventeen annual science fiction anthologies edited by Terry Carr, later revived as a series of three biennial anthologies edited by Robert Silverberg and Karen Haber. It was initially published in paperback by Ace Books (1971–1972), with subsequent volumes published in hardcover by Random House (1973–1975), Doubleday (1976–1987 and 1990), and Bantam Books (1992), and paperback by Popular Library, Zebra Books, Tor, and Bantam Spectra, successively. The last two volumes of the original series were issued in hardcover only, and the last volume of the revival in paperback only. British hardcover editions were published by Dennis Dobson (1971–1979) and Robert Hale (1982–1983). The first two books are illustrated by Alicia Austin. Cover artists for the rest of the series include Davis Meltzer, Dean Ellis, Bob Silverman, Jon Lopez, Richard Mantel, Roger Zimmerman, James Starrett, Lawrence Ratzkin, Peter R. Kruzan, Richard Kriegler, Jean-Franà ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The New Yorker
''The New Yorker'' is an American weekly magazine featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry. Founded as a weekly in 1925, the magazine is published 47 times annually, with five of these issues covering two-week spans. Although its reviews and events listings often focus on the Culture of New York City, cultural life of New York City, ''The New Yorker'' has a wide audience outside New York and is read internationally. It is well known for its illustrated and often topical covers, its commentaries on popular culture and eccentric American culture, its attention to modern fiction by the inclusion of Short story, short stories and literary reviews, its rigorous Fact-checking, fact checking and copy editing, its journalism on politics and social issues, and its single-panel cartoons sprinkled throughout each issue. Overview and history ''The New Yorker'' was founded by Harold Ross and his wife Jane Grant, a ''The New York Times, N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TriQuarterly
''TriQuarterly'' is a name shared by an American literary magazine and a series of books, both operating under the aegis of Northwestern University Press. The journal is published twice a year and features fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, literary essays, reviews, a blog, and graphic art. Founding ''TriQuarterly'' journal was established in 1958 as an undergraduate magazine remembered now for publishing the work of young Saul Bellow. It was reshaped in 1964 by Charles Newman as an innovative national publication aimed at a sophisticated and diverse literary readership. Northwestern University Press, the university's scholarly publishing arm, operated the journal. The journal was so named because its original form as a student magazine was published in each of the three quarters of Northwestern's academic year, and not in the fourth quarter, summer. Book Series In 1990, Northwestern University Press established a series of new works of fiction and poetry under the imprint name ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Dimensions 1
''New Dimensions 1'' is an anthology of original science fiction stories edited by American writer Robert Silverberg, published in hardcover by Doubleday Books in 1971 and reprinted in paperback by Avon Books in 1973. While Silverberg had previously compiled several reprint anthologies, ''New Dimensions 1'' was the first anthology of original work he edited. It placed second in the annual Locus Poll for best original anthology. Contents * "A Special Kind of Morning", Gardner Dozois * "The Trouble with the Past". Alex & Phyllis Eisenstein * "The Power of Time", Josephine Saxton * "The Giberel", Doris Pitkin Buck * " Vaster Than Empires and More Slow", Ursula K. Le Guin * "The Great A", Robert C. Malstrom * "At the Mouse Circus", Harlan Ellison * "A Plague of Cars", Leonard Tushnet * "Sky", R. A. Lafferty * "Love Song of Herself", Edward Bryant * "The Wicked Flee", Harry Harrison * "The Sliced-Crosswise Only-On-Tuesday World", Philip José Farmer * "Conquest" Barry N. Malzb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vaster Than Empires And More Slow
"Vaster than Empires and More Slow" is a science fiction story by American author Ursula K. Le Guin, first published in the collection ''New Dimensions 1'', edited by Robert Silverberg. It is set in the fictional Hainish universe, where Earth is a member of an interstellar "League of Worlds". The anthology was released in United States in 1971, by Doubleday Books. The story follows an exploratory ship sent by the League to investigate a newly discovered planet, named World 4470. The team includes Osden, an "empath" who is able to feel the emotions of those around him; however, he has an abrasive personality that leads to tensions within the team. The ship finds World 4470 to be a world covered in forests, and apparently devoid of animal life. However, the team eventually begins to feel a fear emanating from the planet. The team realizes that the entire vegetation on the planet is part of a singular consciousness, which is reacting in fear at the explorers after spending its wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Seattle Review
''The Seattle Review'' is a leading literary journal founded in 1977 by Donna Gerstenberger and Nelson Bentley.Poetic License, The Seattle Times, March 10, 1991 It is based at the University of Washington. Work that has previously appeared in the journal has been short-listed for the ''Best American Short Stories'' and the ''Best American Essays'' on multiple occasions. Notable past contributors include Sharon Olds, Daniel Orozco, Diane Wakoski, Al Young, Philip Heldrich, Carolyn Kizer, Marilyn Hacker, Mark Doty, Yusef Komunyakaa, Grace Paley, Denise Levertov, Tess Gallagher, Rebecca Aronson Rebecca Aronson is an American poet. She worked as an assistant professor of English at Northwest Missouri State University (NWMSU) located in Maryville, Missouri, until 2008, when she moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico. Author Aronson is the aut ..., and William Stafford. See also * List of literary magazines References External links Seattle Review Homepage 1977 establishments ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Compass Rose
''The Compass Rose'' is a 1982 collection of short stories by American writer Ursula K. Le Guin, and illustrated by Anne Yvonne Gilbert in 1983. It is organized into sections on the theme of directions, though not strictly compass-related as the title implies. It won the Locus Award for best Single Author Collection in 1983. Contents * Preface ''Nadir'' * "'The Author of the Acacia Seeds' and Other Extracts from the Journal of the Association of Therolinguistics" (1974, '' Fellowship of the Stars'') * "The New Atlantis" (1975, ''The New Atlantis'') * "Schrödinger's Cat" (1974, ''Universe 5'') ''North'' * "Two Delays on the Northern Line" (1979, ''The New Yorker'') * "SQ" (1978, '' Cassandra Rising'') * "Small Change" (1981, '' Tor zu den Sternen'') ''East'' * "The First Report of the Shipwrecked Foreigner to the Kadanh of Derb" (1978, ''Antaeus'') * "The Diary of the Rose" (1976, '' Future Power'') * "The White Donkey" (1980, ''TriQuarterly'') * "The Phoenix" ''Zenith'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Epoch (anthology)
Robert Silverberg (born January 15, 1935) is an American author and editor, best known for writing science fiction. He is a multiple winner of both Hugo and Nebula Awards, a member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame, and a Grand Master of SF. He has attended every Hugo Awards ceremony since the inaugural event in 1953. Biography Early years Silverberg was born to Jewish parents in Brooklyn, New York. A voracious reader since childhood, he began submitting stories to science fiction magazines during his early teenage years. He received a BA in English Literature from Columbia University, in 1956. While at Columbia, he wrote the juvenile novel ''Revolt on Alpha C'' (1955), published by Thomas Y. Crowell with the cover notice: "A gripping story of outer space". He won his first Hugo in 1956 as the "best new writer". That year Silverberg was the author or co-author of four of the six stories in the August issue of ''Fantastic'', breaking his record set in the pre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
