The Bear Wrestler

Robert Ostrom’ s latest collection, The Bear Wrestler, weaves a lyrical tale of loss and reconstruction, inviting readers to journey through the tangled history of a family’ s myths and memories and to step into a world where whimsy meets devastation and the lines between deception and truth blur into a tapestry of fable and fact. At the heart of Ostrom’ s mesmerizing fourth book of poems is the bear— guide, father, sister, speaker, reader, and god. Sometimes caged by metaphor and anthropom...