Product Description: A classic work of American fiction and a masterpiece of eccentric detail. Praised by John Ashbery as evoking “a rococo world of banality and nightmare which . . . comes in the end to seem like paradise.“ The Orchid Stories presents us with interwoven stories as delicate and exquisite as the flowers for which they’re named, conveying an almost otherworldly beauty...read more

Product Description: Kenward Elmslie's way with words cuts a singular swath through a polymath variety of forms. This collection of poems and ephemera treats language sometimes as paint to be thrown on canvas, sometimes as a series of fascinatingly odd concrete objects and throughout, Elmslie takes full advantage of the word's status as an infinite well of signification...read more

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Product Description: the American musical injected with surreal pizazz

Product Description: New Condition. Bamberger Books, Flint, MI, 1992. First trade edition. Paperback. 4to. Unpaginated. A retrospective of comics created over a 25-year span by artist Joe Brainard and poet Kenward Elmslie.

Product Description: drama, "an enchantment" (John Ashbery)

Tells surrealistic stories set in an alphabet of bars from the Amazon Club to Zanzibars

Product Description: Poetry. Ron Padgett was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1942. A member of the Tulsa School of Poets, he received his B.A. from Columbia College in 1964, the same year he won the Gotham Bookmart Avant-Garde Poetry Prize. He spent 1965-1966 in Paris on a Fulbright...read more

Product Description: Poetry. "One of the zaniest 'post-moderns' writing. His use of language, particularly the various jargons of popular culture, is startlingly unique and technically extravagant"-Michael Lally, Book World, Washington Post.

Product Description: Poetry. "One is reminded, not unflatteringly, of Frank O'Hara. His poems find their strength in their uncanny directness, as the poet applies subtle force to allow his opinions full impact. A mellow and yet strong 'voice'." -Stephen Bett, College Review Service.