Strange Vigil

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 con...