A Giant Claw by Gronk
Foreword by Gail Wronsky
Translated by Alicia Partnoy

---

From the Foreword
Drawing, for Gronk, IS writing, or perhaps writing is drawing. And so he has drawn a book. I would call it a book of poetry if I had to choose a genre, because it's written in a language of images, because each page has the kind of organized fragility that poems do...There are declamatory divisions of line and space here, narratives of metamorphosis, the creation of a new aleph-bet made of quirky symbols (from outer space?)...[through which we] are reminded that the world we experience through language is "beautiful illusion," that body and form are constantly in flux, constantly being dissolved and reinstituted...[As viewers] we're confidantes, insiders, privy to the implications of the verbal and visual puns. The subtleness and elegance of the hand that creates [them] delights, charms, and impresses.
—Gail Wronsky, author of Dying for Beauty