WILD ORCHIDS


Announcing WILD ORCHIDS vol. 1. New and affectionate writing on HERMAN MELVILLE.


from Missing Limb
Kim Evans

Memories of the Holy Land
Benjamin Friedlander

from Memoir of the Last Last Man
Alan Halsey

C.L.R. James's Moby-Dick: The Testimony of the Crew Who Did Not Survive
Donald Pease

3 Transpositions of "A Utilitarian View of Monitor's Flight"
Courtney Pfahl, Joyelle McSweeney, Jennifer Scappettone

Drowning Metaphors
Geraldine Monk

A Gentle Fold Forward for Forwarding
Chris Sylvester

GAM as an Experiment in Gift Exchange
Stacy Szymaszek

Metaphorology of the Castaway
Mark von Schlegell


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WILD ORCHIDS is an annual journal of affective/inspired forms in literary criticism. Our issues hope to reencounter, write close to, and trace the unlit flows of our favorite writers, in volumes centered around single authors.

We are currently reading submissions for our second issue, which will take shape around the life and writing of NYC poet HANNAH WEINER. Unsolicited submissions are encouraged, but please have a look at our first issue before offering to contribute.

WILD ORCHIDS is edited by Sean Reynolds and Robert Dewhurst, graduate students in the Poetics Program at the State University of New York at Buffalo. The journal receives funding from the English Department, the David Gray Chair of Poetry and Letters, the James H. McNulty Chair in English and Research, and the Graduate Student Association at the University at Buffalo.

Send all correspondence to wildorchids@endingthealphabet.org, or 359 Lafayette Av / Buffalo, NY 14213.