the orchid stories

kenward elmslie

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Softcover, 264pp

Pilot Press, 2025

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. 

Afterword by Robert Glück