An Ursula K. Le Guin Bibliography: Poetry

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Wild Angels (1974)

Chapbook, Capra Press (Santa Barbara, California: 1974, 1975).

Walking in Cornwall (1976)

Chapbook, n.p. 1976

Tillai and Tylissos, with Theodora Kroeber (1979)

Chapbook, Red Bull 1979.

Hard Words and Other Poems

Chapbook, 1981; Harper & Row, 1981

In the Red Zone, with Henk Pander (1983)

Chapbook, Lord John, 1983

Buffalo Gals and Other Animal Presences (1987)

Short stories and poetry

Capra 1987; NAL 1988; First Plume Printing, Sept., 1988 (ISBN 0-452-26480-4).

Includes 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," "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"; 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, from the Duino Elegies of R.M. Rilke," and "She Unnames Them."

Wild Oats and Fireweed ... New Poems (1988)

Chapbook, Harper & Row

No Boats (1992)

Chapbook, Ygor & Buntho Make Books Press, 1992.

Blue Moon Over Thurman Street, with Roger Dorband (1993)

NewSage: 1993 (ISBN 0939165228). Photographs by Roger Dorband; poetry by Ursula Le Guin.

Going Out With Peacocks and Other Poems (1994)

Chapbook; HarperCollins, 1994

The Twins, The Dream: Two Voices / Las Gemelas, El Sueño: Dos Voces, with Diana Bellessi (1998)

Poems by Diana Bellessi and Ursula K. Le Guin - Las Gemelas, El Sueño: Dos Voces. Poemas de Diana Bellessi y Ursula K. Le Guin. Arte Público Press: Houston, 1996, 1997. (ISBN 1-55885-170-4 9 hardback; ISBN 1-55885-179-8 paperback); Ed. Norma 1998.
Le Guin and Bellessi translate each other's work

Sixty Odd (1999)

Shambhala (1999)

Others

one of Le Guin's poems (?) published in Wynn Bullock: The Enchanted Landscape: Photographs, 1940-1975, by Wynn Bullock (1999)

"American Wars"

Available at Poets Against War.

"The Basalt"

© 1982; first appeared in Open Places 33 (Spring 1982); republished in Buffalo Gals (1987)

"Black Leonard in Negative Space"

Buffalo Gals (1987)

"A Conversation With a Silence"

Buffalo Gals (1987)

"The Crown of Laurel"

Buffalo Gals (1987)

"Flints"

Buffalo Gals (1987)

"For Leonard, Darko, and Burton Watson"

Buffalo Gals (1987)

"For Ted"

© 1975; first appeared in Wild Angels by Ursula K. Le Guin, Capra Press (1975); republished in Buffalo Gals (1987)

"Found Poem"

Buffalo Gals (1987)

"Lewis and Clark and After"

© 1987; first appeared in The Seattle Review (Summer 1987); republished in Buffalo Gals (1987).

"The Man Eater"

Buffalo Gals (1987)

"Mount St. Helens / Omphalos"

© 1975; first appeared in Wild Angels by Ursula K. Le Guin, Capra Press, 1975; republished in Buffalo Gals (1987)

"Sleeping Out"

Buffalo Gals (1987)

"Tabby Lorenzo"

Buffalo Gals (1987)

"Torrey Pines Reserve"

© 1981; first appeared in Hard Words by Ursula K. Le Guin, Harper & Row, 1981; republished in Buffalo Gals (1987)

"Totem"

© 1981; first appeared in Hard Words by Ursula K. Le Guin, Harper & Row (1981); republished in Buffalo Gals (1987)

"Walking in Cornwall: A Poem for the Solstice"

(chapbook, 1976)

"West Texas"

Buffalo Gals (1987)

"What is Going on in the Oaks"

Buffalo Gals (1987)

"Winter Downs"

© 1981; first appeared in Hard Words by Ursula K. Le Guin, Harper & Row (1981); republished in Buffalo Gals (1987)

"Xmas Over"

© 1984; first appeared in Clinton Street Quarterly (1984); republished in Buffalo Gals (1987)