RECLAIMED WATER by Tom Snarsky
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published August 2023
perfect bound trade paperback
9 x 6 inches, 97 pages
ISBN 978-1-942723-14-1
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In Reclaimed Water, his second full-length collection of poems, Tom Snarsky rinses the familiar and holds it up, glistening, to the light. With off-beat humor and a refusal to ignore our own complicity in creating the current precarious crossroads, he articulates a poetics devoted to awareness that author and readers alike are inextricable from a complex of flows connecting everything on this planet. How might we save our damaged world (and selves) if we go beyond the binary of resource and waste? By Snarsky’s reckoning, reclamation is a form of care. What’s used and discarded persists, our textual ephemera also, as flotsam taken up and given new purpose inseparable from the old. Reclaimed Water is the work of a poet living in the present, restlessly searching for answers to vexing questions. Snarsky’s poems are both serious and playful; they frequently break free of their confines. The many-gendered mothers of poetry (& the poet) are omnipresent, influences undisguised, and the dead welcomed in like lost friends.
Praise for RECLAIMED WATER
What does it mean to live in a world where our capacity to love, marvel, and imagine matches our capacity to produce, accumulate, and destroy? What human miracles exist alongside the errors that continue to march us towards complete psychic, social, and ecological ruin, and how do we harness the emotional muscle to foil our involvement in the whole enterprise? At once humorous, tender, and grim, these are the questions Tom Snarsky considers throughout his second full-length poetry collection, Reclaimed Water, to grasp which is more inevitable: humanity or collapse?
—Susan L. Leary, “A review of Tom Snarsky's Reclaimed Water,” EcoTheo Review, October 1, 2023
Praise for RECLAIMED WATER
What does it mean to live in a world where our capacity to love, marvel, and imagine matches our capacity to produce, accumulate, and destroy? What human miracles exist alongside the errors that continue to march us towards complete psychic, social, and ecological ruin, and how do we harness the emotional muscle to foil our involvement in the whole enterprise? At once humorous, tender, and grim, these are the questions Tom Snarsky considers throughout his second full-length poetry collection, Reclaimed Water, to grasp which is more inevitable: humanity or collapse?
—Susan L. Leary, “A review of Tom Snarsky's Reclaimed Water,” EcoTheo Review, October 1, 2023