The animating grief is unfixable: A review of Elizabeth Gross’ Dear Escape Artist

Dear Escape Artist Elizabeth Gross Press Street Press/Antenna, 2016 “Figures take shape,” Roland Barthes writes in A Lover’s Discourse, “insofar as we can recognize, in passing discourse, something that has been read, heard, felt.” Dear Escape Artist, an epistolary sequence poem by Elizabeth Gross joined with book artist Sara White’s ink drawings, assembles its addressee … The animating grief is unfixable: A review of Elizabeth Gross’ Dear Escape Artist