{"product_id":"9781625571656","title":"Strange Vigil","description":"Author: Scott Frey\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781625571656\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Black Lawrence Press\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 07 Jan 2026\u003cbr\u003ePages: 50 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eTaking 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47920667852958,"sku":"ING-9781625571656","price":15.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781625571656.jpg?v=1782827491","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781625571656","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}