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).
Christopher Schmidt

Contributions
Tapestried Landscape: The Queer Influence of Roberto Burle Marx on Elizabeth Bishop’s Brazil
“Marvelous and somehow sad, flamboyant, and threatening.”[1]