Seeking Oneself Through Echoes: ‘Exit the Body’

Heather Bartel’s essay collection on emptiness and absence

Exit the Body (Split/Lip Press)

Heather Bartel’s Exit the Body is a slim essay collection with — as the book description explains — “a tarot reading, a one-act starring dead and dreamed women, conversations with Sylvia Plath through a mirror, and letters to a living ghost.” It will be released May 14 by Split/Lip…