The orchid stories / Kenward, Elmslie.

  • Kenward Elmslie
Date:
2016
  • Books

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Description

"A little-known classic of twentieth-century queer literature and a masterpiece of eccentric detail, poet Kenward Elmslie's only novel The Orchid Stories presents us with interwoven stories as delicate and exquisite as the flowers for which they are named, conveying a dreamlike, otherworldly beauty."--Provided by publisher.

Publication/Creation

U.K. : Pilot Press, 2016.

Physical description

261 pages ; 18 cm

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Notes

"First published by Paris Review Editions/Doubleday & company, 1973. Republished in 2016 by The Song Cave"--Title page verso.

Contents

Locust Gleanings -- Native innards -- Eugene V. Debs' last Mackintosh -- Streetcar -- Mooning -- My holy city geography book -- Zoroaster -- Waking up -- Fauteuil -- Moon canal morning -- Hiatus: orchid ode -- Accident vertigo -- Sunshine revelations -- Letter-poem to a hydrofarm -- Afterword.

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ISBN

  • 1068758619
  • 9781068758614