Gil Orlovitz

My essay at The Review of Uncontemporary Fiction on the forgotten poet and experimental novelist Gil Orlovitz:

To even the most well-informed readers of fiction and poetry who reached their age of literary maturity after, say, 1970, Gil Orlovitz is no doubt a mostly obscure, if not totally unknown figure. Orlovitz died in 1973—although he had achieved sufficient obscurity even by then that his body was not actually identified until several months following his passing—after a nearly 30-year career as poet, playwright, screenwriter, and novelist, and while some effort was made in the years just after his death to appreciate and preserve his achievement, in particular through a 1978 special issue of American Poetry Review, in the years since then his books disappeared from sight and his name dropped out from most discussions of postwar American literature.

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[pierate prentice]

hi,

is this article avail? the link seems dead.

[Dan Green]

I think the site might temporarily offline. You can read it here: https://www.thereadingexperience.net/critics_progress_readings/2022/06/the-fortunes-of-experimental-fiction-.html