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    612-822-4611

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Strange Vigil

Strange Vigil

Frey, Scott

Paperback

Biographies GeneralDeath & DyingGeneral Poetry

Publisher Price: $9.95

ISBN10: 1625571658
ISBN13: 9781625571656
Publisher: Black Lawrence Press
Published: Sep 30 2025
Pages: 56
Weight: 0.17
Height: 0.14 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Taking its title from Whitman's vigil, kept through the night in a field beside a dying soldier, Scott Frey's Strange Vigil spans the three years of his daughter's life, shortened by a brain injury received during her birth and complicated by intensive medical needs. With short prose pieces, lyric essays, and praise poems for G-tubes, nurses, and coworkers, this chapbook invites readers into a wakeful circle of suffering and small heroic gestures of care. Grief and memory echo in the concourse din amid hurried hospital exits and final flights, funerals and all-school assemblies, football games and horror movies, pushing into fraught mixtures of loss and laughter and, ultimately, the wonders that are breath and presence.

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