What Are They All Waiting For? Stories, Poems & Essays: 1944-1962 - Softcover

Orlovitz, Gil

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0692116818 ISBN 13: 9780692116814

Publisher: Tough Poets Press, 2018

Synopsis

What Are They All Waiting For? is an anthology of long out-of-print works by Philadelphia-born experimental novelist, poet, playwright, and screenwriter Gil Orlovitz (1918-1973), one of America's most innovative, yet virtually forgotten, writers of the 20th century. This volume contains 9 short stories, 4 essays, and 49 poems, originally published between 1944 and 1962. Also included is a comprehensive biography of Orlovitz and a bibliography of his works.

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Review:

"His work is known only to a handful of poetry lovers who read the verse magazines and purchase slender books issued by publishing houses with names like Inferno Press and Hearse Press. He is nonetheless one of the finest – the most versatile – poets now writing in English. Long before the San Francisco Renaissance exploded with public and police clamor and articles in Time, Orlovitz was writing with a Dionysian frenzy combined with perfect control of language that has been equaled by few, if any, of the Beats."
– Chad Walsh, Today's Poets (1964)

About this edition

• Publisher: Tough Poets Press
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 0692116818
• ISBN 13: 9780692116814
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 276