Queer Optimism: Lyric Personhood and Other Felicitous Persuasions

Queer Optimism

Lyric Personhood and Other Felicitous Persuasions

2008 • 273 pages

'Queer Optimism' presents a new paradigm for queer theory. Through fresh, perceptive, and sensitive readings of the poetry of Emily Dickinson, Hart Crane, Jack Spicer, and Elizabeth Bishop, Snediker reveals that each of these poets demonstrated an interest in the durability of positive affects.


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