Michael D Snediker is a well-known poet and a scholar of American literature, poetics, and disability theory. He is Associate Professor of American Literature & Poetics at the University of Houston, before which he was a Queens National Scholar and Associate Professor of American Literature at

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, in Kingston, Ontario. He is the author of Contingent Figure: Chronic Pain and Queer Embodiment (University of Minnesota Press, 2021). His poetry has appeared in ''The Cortland Review'
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, 2008). offers new readings of the poetry of

Emily Dickinson Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (December 10, 1830 – May 15, 1886) was an American poet. Little-known during her life, she has since been regarded as one of the most important figures in American poetry. Dickinson was born in Amherst, Massach ...

Hart Crane Harold Hart Crane (July 21, 1899 – April 27, 1932) was an American poet. Provoked and inspired by T. S. Eliot, Crane wrote modernist poetry that was difficult, highly stylized, and ambitious in its scope. In his most ambitious work, '' The Brid ...

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, and Jack Spicer. He received his Ph.D in English from

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. He is the recipient of multiple residencies at Yaddo and the James Merrill House.

Poetry

The New York Editions (Fordham University Press, 2017) "The Apartment of Tragic Appliances"
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2013) ''Bourdon'' (White Rabbit Press, 2010). ''Nervous Pastoral'' (Dove/tail Press, 2008).

Selected chapters and articles

*"Weaver's Handshake: The Aesthetics of Chronic Objects," "Reading Eve Sedgwick," ed. Lauren Berlant (Duke University Press, 2019) *“Is the Rectangle a Grave? Bersani, Rothko, and the Dream of Disability,” "Leo Bersani: Queer Theory and Beyond', ed. Mikko Tuhkanen (SUNY Press, 2015). *“Pierre and the Non-Transparencies of Figuration,” ''ELH'' (2010). *“Subjunctivity,” ''Postmodern Culture'' 18.3 (2008). *“Queer Optimism,” ''Postmodern Culture'' 16.3 (2006). *“Stasis & Verve: Henry James and the Fictions of Patience,” ''The Henry James Review'' 27.1 (2006).

References

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