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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.

A masterpiece of astounding and steadfast invention. Robert Glück

Kenward Elmslie's insouciance, inventiveness and fearlessness suffuse The Orchid Stories. No one writes like him, no one. His mind travels in language and through sentences that jolt a reader out of settled linguistic paths. His writing marks the road less taken, his stories excursions without plans or plots. Instead, "Nirvana juice is for sale," heavenly pleasures the goal. Lynne Tillman

A sweetly bizarre fiction that might be a secret autobiography. You tumble ahead and keep reading, led on by the metrics, though it's mostly prose. You just keep reading. The book contains no "official" emotions ones you're supposed to have but they feel exactly right. This book, first published in 1973, is still way ahead of the times. Alice Notley

Kenward Elmslie is one of the unforgettable writers of our time. It is as though Burroughs' permanent apocalypse were being observed by someone else: not a closet Savonarola, but someone motivated by the humor, sensuality, and joie de vivre of an O'Hara. . . The world may be an industrial swamp, but Elmslie's dazzling one-step ahead induction of it is a cause for rejoicing and even joy. John Ashbery