Gowanus Atropolis by Julian Talamantez Brolaski Susan Utting now reissued with a stunning

now reissued with a stunning new cover

The poetic styles on show are similarly varied

and our relationship with institutions (be it our employer

redolent of boredom and lechery (‘When I Think of Bald Men’

He had come to wide recognition in the 1980s

Gowanus Atropolis by Julian Talamantez Brolaski Susan Utting now reissued with a stunningGowanus atropolis is an ecopoetical exploration of the Gowanus canal in Brooklyn, a recently designated superfund site that was once a fertile fishing ground for the Canarsie Native American tribe. The poems grapple with reconciling the toxicity of the titular Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn and the east river in Manahatta with the poets search for the pastoral in New York City. A queer elegy for when language might have been prior to thought, where the