Gowanus Atropolis by Julian Talamantez Brolaski Donald Gardner Rachel Willems

Rachel Willems

  This is poetry con brio

’ – Don Maclennan

Katherine Pierpoint

'Poetry of innocence and wonder

Gowanus Atropolis by Julian Talamantez Brolaski Donald Gardner Rachel WillemsGowanus 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