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Very much enjoying this collection’s take on professions in prose poems

Gaps and white space in the narrative are filled with exquisite counterpointing illustrations

In May of that same year

'Poetry of innocence and wonder

Gowanus Atropolis by Julian Talamantez Brolaski Donald Gardner  This is poetry conGowanus 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