of easy outrage, teary laments, self-pitying cries, or transcendence in [Rick] Snyder's poems. Alienation isn't touted as an affliction that is endured or understood only by the poet, but recognized as a condition that we all inhabit. Understanding just how detached and passionate one must be to register what the world and we have become, Snyder doesn't try (as Baudelaire did) to "distil the eternal from the transitory" because to do so now would be an escapist response to the post 9/11 world we inhabit.
from The Brooklyn Rail: The Poet of Post-modern life
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