The Apartment of Tragic Appliances, Poems

Author

Snediker

Year

2013

Publisher

Punctum Books

Language

English

Pages

Link

Last Update

24-Jul-2026

Keywords

Language & Literature ; Gender Studies

Description

When one decides past certain hours to go to SUBWAY (eatfresh) despite a decent earlier serving of asparagus vichyssoise, one thinks, I’ll feel a little less abject about the excursion if I travel with a nice accessory, for instance an envelope-sized Louis Vuitton satchel on whose veracity one has insisted on past occasions, although not this particular night. Less junket than one is junk, raccooning down the sidewalk to where one’s students might be gorging, shoulder-slung with an object Hawthorne might describe as a citizen of somewhere else. Oh Louis, strung between the Actual and the Imaginary, like something in...