The Wasting Game

Terry Eagleton has written that Gross's poems "know how to make and suggestion resonate...he touches an alien, intractable dimension." These new poems reach towards closer engagement, whether with the realities of Estonia, his father's birthplace -- visited for the first time -- or with other loves and longings, never uncomplicated but handled even at their most difficult with tenderness and wit. In the end, this is a book of life and hope.