{"product_id":"strange-vigil-9781625571656","title":"Strange Vigil","description":"Taking its title from Whitman's vigil, kept through the night in a field beside a dying soldier, Scott Frey's \u003ci\u003eStrange Vigil\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eScott Frey is a poet and educator who grew up in Western Pennsylvania and teaches English at Pine Meadow Academy in Windsor Locks, Connecticut. He and his wife, Meryl, run a non-profit charity, The Charlotte Frey Foundation, whose mission is to help children with multiple handicaps and life-threatening illnesses and their families improve their quality of life. His book, \u003ci\u003eHeavy Metal Nursing\u003c\/i\u003e, won the Tampa Review Prize for poetry. Among other places, his work has been published or is forthcoming in \u003ci\u003ePassages North\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003edecember magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Adroit Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBellevue Literary Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNew York Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Missouri Review\u003c\/i\u003e, where he was awarded the Perkoff Prize for poetry. He and his family live in Granby, Connecticut. Visit him online at scottfrey.org\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Black Lawrence Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51623996915986,"sku":"9781625571656","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_52525d59-1132-407c-b0a4-b07ee4f5e74c.jpg?v=1758651445","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/strange-vigil-9781625571656","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}