LEADER 03139 am 22005173u 450 001 9910140445403321 005 20230803032318.0 035 $a(CKB)2670000000557909 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001664908 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16453626 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001664908 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)14998936 035 $a(PQKB)11105485 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/39121 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000557909 100 $a20160829d2013 uy p 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurm|#---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe apartment of tragic appliances /$fMichael D. Snediker 210 $aBrooklyn, NY$cpunctum books$d2013 210 31$a[Brooklyn, New York]:$cPunctum Books,$d2013 210 4$aŠ2013 215 $a1 online resource (69 pages) $c1 illustration; digital file(s) 300 $a"First published in 2013 by Peanut Books, a literary offshoot of punctum books, Brooklyn, NY"--title page verso. 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-615-79248-0 330 3 $aThe Apartment of Tragic Appliances, named as a finalist for a 2013 Lambda Literary Award, is a literal place in which a hapless, portable dishwasher "heats residue only to reimagine cleanliness as an art project," a recalcitrant microwave neglects to heat, and a refrigerator dies an inconvenient, bulky death. It is also that psychic space in which we consider our loneliness, our wandering hearts, our unpacked boxes, our vulgar desires.In Queer Optimism: Lyric Personhood and Other Felicitous Persuasions (Minnesota, 2007), Michael Snediker worked "in the interests of felicity" to undermine the ways in which queer theory customarily privileges shame and melancholy. Here, in his first full-length collection of poetry, he undertakes a similar upending of expectation, acknowledging "gay sadness" but refusing to fall fully under its sway. The demi-tragedies of daily life are recounted by a voice that is variously wistful, giddy, bawdy, silly, and tart. Along the way, Michael Snediker sets off an impressive pyrotechnic display of literary allusion, drawing on the superstars of the Western canon (think: Virgil, Racine, Proust, James, Wharton, Tennessee Williams) and of popular culture (Lucille Ball, John Travolta, Alex Trebek).Buyer beware: In these pages you will not find advice on how to feng shui your duplex or tame a Cuisinart run amok. Instead, you will find something far rarer: a book of poetic sustenance. As Daniel Tiffany observes, "We have been missing poems like these for a long time.? 606 $aPoetry 606 $aPopular culture$xPoetry 610 $apoetry 610 $agay life 610 $aprose poems 610 $alove 615 0$aPoetry. 615 0$aPopular culture$xPoetry. 676 $a811 700 $aSnediker$b Michael D.$0802576 801 0$bPQKB 801 2$bUkMaJRU 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910140445403321 996 $aApartment of Tragic Appliances$91803894 997 $aUNINA