On the banks of Gowanus Canal, a fetid stream in a squalid Brooklyn neighborhood, Hans Knudsen, son of a liberal Lutheran minister, seeks among the warring pressures of consubstantiation, transsubstantiation, and no-substantiation, the old world and the new-new world, the ideal and the real, the Cogito and the un-self, Martin Luther and Descartes, the abstract and the concrete, for a way into modern, post-religious culture, hope, and life.
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Tod Thilleman moved to New York at the age of 18 and worked for a brief period with Pace Editions. He is the author of numerous poetry collections--including ROOT-CELLAR TO RIVERINE, BREATHING, THREE MOUTHS, BLANK VERSE, and ENTELECHY--and the novel GOWANUS CANAL, HANS KNUDSEN. From 1991-1999 he was editor of Poetry New York: a journal of poetry & translation.
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I've read Gowanus Canal in galleys and then again in final print. It is wise, witty and original, in short, a classic in the making. In the words of Alfred Jarry: "Great works are not created great; they become so." I have no doubt that with time GC will gain in recognition and will acquire a very special kind of cult following. Buy it, you won't regret it.
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