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Gowanus Atropolis

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Format Paperback / softback
ISBN-10 1933254815
ISBN-13 9781933254814
Publisher Ugly Duckling Presse
Imprint Ugly Duckling Presse
Country of Manufacture US
Country of Publication GB
Publication Date Sep 1st, 2020
Print length 104 Pages
Weight 156 grams
Dimensions 14.10 x 20.30 x 1.10 cms
KSh 2,150.00
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Gowanus 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 poet’s search for the pastoral in New York City. A queer elegy for when language might have been prior to thought, where the phrase becomes the thought, rather than the other way around—so that the dystopic might become, if not utopic, at least measurable / pleasurable, ‘melodious offal.’Gowanus atropolis reinscribes, as always already present, both queer and Native spaces in and around the Gowanus through a radical reshaping of English.


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