Z’roah. Roni Gross, 427 East 6th Street 2W, New York, NY, USA. Tel: +1 212 677 4157. Website: https://ronigross.com.
Elsbeth Pancrazi. The Valley. Z’roah. 2019. 17 pp. 229 x 152 mm. Grotesque, Modern No. 20 on Somerset with 16 illustrations from polymer plates and cut foam pressure printed shapes, with the addition of colored pencil by Peter Schell. Printed on a Vandercook 219. 15 copies. Accordion bound by Uriel Cidor in orange japanese cloth with a meandering inset channel of green cloth, with box of same green cloth with a silver hot stamped title, price $850; 10 copies in envelope made by Roni Gross from green St. Armand paper, with 9 unbound prints/with text, price $350. A series of six poems described by the poet as “meditations on loss, a breadcrumb trail through the territory of grief. Each poem, comprised of two stacks of short lines, invites multiple readings and provokes reverberations of phrase and feeling.” Written in two columns, which can be read across both or down each, designed and set to clue the reader into the multiple possibilities.