Poems: “These Sufferings Are What,” “Hung about the Neck,” “He Borrowed the River,” and “Mercury Series”

Michael D. Snediker is an associate professor of English at the University of Houston and the author of Contingent Figure: Chronic Pain and Queer Embodiment as well as Queer Optimism: Lyric Personhood and Other Felicitous Persuasions. His most recent book of poems, The New York Editions, was published in 2017.