What Are They All Waiting For? Stories, Poems & Essays: 1944–1962
Gil Orlovitz
Compiled by Rick Schober
June 7, 2018
ISBN 9780692116814 / Paperback / 274 pages / $15.99

An anthology of work by Philadelphia-born experimental writer Gil Orlovitz (1918–1973). This volume includes a brief biographical note (available as a downloadable PDF) and a comprehensive bibliography.

"As to Orlovitz, I find him at his best, very good. Certainly his delivery seems original."
— Charles Bukowski (1958)

"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)