"Kenward Elmslie's perverse, scabrous, gorgeous poetry and prose have astonished his fans for over 50 years ... He's the most extravagant, and extravagantly overlooked, poet in America." --Michael Silverblatt, the Paris Review Like the orchids that provide their leitmotif, these interwoven stories by Kenward Elmslie are exquisite, exotic and oneiric, as if they had been written in another world. Although each of The...