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!["Dean Rhetoric's poetry shakes things up. The phrase-making of [his collections] Foundry Songs is visceral and passionate, forging from trauma and poverty a pulsing shield of anger." John McCullough](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:uenpvfrryp63fghm6lwyrohq/bafkreif4aoeh7bpphhafyuzd4ulvdjvjvesskn6jtul4qk2i7nasiyrp24)
![“At the heart of Tom Snarsky’s A Letter From The Mountain & Other Poems is the impossible task of surviving the burdensome reality of American capitalism, the speaker continuously offering straight-faced understanding of its hold on our psyche: ‘Money is the most boring thing in the world, like breathing / it’s annoying when you’re forced to think about it // or it feels impossible, somehow, that you just continue / regulating these flows or you die.’ But Snarsky flips the idea of what’s impossible on its head, the challenge of capitalism’s arbitrary grip pitted against the rarer, more beautiful impossibility of a single, un-replicable life. Across these poems, experience a torrential rush of specificity that only this speaker can provide as he meditates on John Ashbery, Tracy Chapman, the recklessness of angels, probiotics, the perfect Mother’s Day poem, neural microarchitecture, internet companies, and moonshine. And witness poetry’s impossibility, too: the intimacy of a voice extending across the ether, a letter of formal invention that reaches you like ‘…[a] meadow you hold open // [l]ike a door’.”
—Susan L. Leary, author of Dressing the Bear](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:uenpvfrryp63fghm6lwyrohq/bafkreieii23tmnivals2cgplrefcwdn7flgqvdm5i4s5tyhz4efogoiqs4)
![“At the heart of Tom Snarsky’s A Letter From The Mountain & Other Poems is the impossible task of surviving the burdensome reality of American capitalism, the speaker continuously offering straight-faced understanding of its hold on our psyche: ‘Money is the most boring thing in the world, like breathing / it’s annoying when you’re forced to think about it // or it feels impossible, somehow, that you just continue / regulating these flows or you die.’ But Snarsky flips the idea of what’s impossible on its head, the challenge of capitalism’s arbitrary grip pitted against the rarer, more beautiful impossibility of a single, un-replicable life. Across these poems, experience a torrential rush of specificity that only this speaker can provide as he meditates on John Ashbery, Tracy Chapman, the recklessness of angels, probiotics, the perfect Mother’s Day poem, neural microarchitecture, internet companies, and moonshine. And witness poetry’s impossibility, too: the intimacy of a voice extending across the ether, a letter of formal invention that reaches you like ‘…[a] meadow you hold open // [l]ike a door’.”
—Susan L. Leary, author of Dressing the Bear](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:uenpvfrryp63fghm6lwyrohq/bafkreifrvdb7ndbhnucpbnbwhrcbrmfste7363j2ctn3ftmenlwozchws4)
