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"""In describing love both lost and remembered-all within the throes of a fragmented Gowanus landscape whose concrete lives with and against the nature it fails to contain-Vogel tells his readers of ""Human waste heading for herons / And hoping for the filtrations / Of ribbed mussels"". With a casual jaggedness in his humor and associative imaginings, Vogel discovers (then loses: again and again) his own identity: ""And I am here now / My shadow pops up / To tell me / A dark patch / On the gravel / Pulsing at periphery"". Vogel displays a persistent haiku sensibility in these poems, which in turn displays a depressive mind turning to (and freshening) lyricism to alleviate its own suffering. As in his own canoe-wandering in Gowanus, this chapbook offers a journey through a strange, miraculous and charming poetic mind."" - Tawanda Mulalu, author of Please Make Me Pretty, I Don't Want to Die: Poems ""An ancient and despoiled waterway provides Brad Vogel with a vehicle for conveying New York, history, the whole starry swirl overhead. So much glints in this collection: subway flash, distant skyscrapers, the smeared walls of dumptrucks. It echoes Whitman, who termed the same landscape ""liquid, sane, unruly, musical, self-sufficient."" Both poets reminding us that the mystery of New York is in the water."" - Russell Shorto, author of The Island at the Center of the World ""Brad Vogel's passion for the Gowanus - as local history, as ecological niche, as metaphor, as a tiny bit of feral life still left in NYC - shines through every poem in this wonderful collection."" - Hugh Ryan, author of When Brooklyn Was Queer ""Every superfund site deserves clear-eyed, contrarian, steadfast love poems like Brad Vogel's to Gowanus Canal. He sees it all from his canoe and names it all--black mayonnaise, xylened waters, light through the milkweed--and loves Gowanus anyway."" - Kathleen Flenniken, author of the poetry collection PLUME ""Brad Vogel's FIND ME IN THE FERAL POCKETS conjures vivid images of Brooklyn's Gowanus Canal and its environs, revealing the wild ecology hidden amidst the urban wasteland-but it soon becomes an apt metaphor to explore human self-reflection and direction. In exhuming forgotten local histories to be intertwined with intimate verse, Vogel explores love, loathing, and survival in the big city via a sense of longing for and belonging to a singular place. By returning to the soothing quality and dynamic possibilities of the waterfront, Vogel's appreciation for that dependable volatility of the tides inspires insight and yearning for more answers."" - Joseph Alexiou, author of Gowanus: Brooklyn's Curious Canal"

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