Hart Crane's smile: affirming certain things -- Emily Dickinson's queer pain: "One claw upon the air"--Jack Spicer's Billy the Kid: beyond the singular personal -- Elizabeth Bishop's crane, and the good-enough poem.
'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 p…
"These essays exemplify all the virtues of interdisciplinarity in consideration of that most multidisciplined of writers, Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The contributors simultaneously clarify and complicate our understanding of some of the more vexed areas of Gilman's work by engagi…
