Mountebank by Tom Snarsky #totebags even when the book's preoccupation

even when the book's preoccupation with abortion

even in ageing

 Fruitcake charts ‘extreme experience with a dazzling excess’ (Deryn Rees-Jones)

Telling stories of bizarre familial reckonings and difficult relationships

and taking in Antarctica too

Mountebank by Tom Snarsky #totebags even when the book's preoccupationMountebank by Tom Snarsky is a sprawling, associative, and tenderly recursive work that explores consciousness, grief, memory, and devotion through a lens both philosophical and playful. Divided into multiple interleaved sections of poems, translations, and small flooded engines, the collection assembles fragments, aphorisms, pastoral traces, and pop cultural detritus into a lattice of lyric and meditative attention. Snarsky's formal restlessness