Christopher Schmidt

Bio

Christopher Schmidt is Professor of English at LaGuardia Community College, City University of New York, and also teaches in the M.A. Program in Liberal Studies at the Graduate Center, CUNY. He is the author of The Poetics of Waste: Queer Excess in Stein, Ashbery, Schuyler, and Goldsmith (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014) and a book of poems, The Next in Line (Slope Editions, 2008).

Contributions

Tapestried Landscape: The Queer Influence of Roberto Burle Marx on Elizabeth Bishop’s Brazil

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“Marvelous and somehow sad, flamboyant, and threatening .” [1] The words are Elizabeth Bishop’s, writing in a letter to describe the extraordinary tropical plant life encountered at the Sítio Burle Marx, the hundred-acre home and nursery of Roberto Burle Marx, Brazil’s best-known landscape architect and a key figure in the country’s modernist movement. Although Bishop had already lived in Brazil for ten years when she wrote this, the Sítio Burle Marx, located on the western outskirts of Rio de...

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