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vital force
they run to the new hairdresser in town
The police arrest a young monk with a violent past
Not trying to entertain the thought
Samuel Johnson
Shellback FIC027320 vital forceA not untroubled tribute and a difficult elegy, Shellback traces the attachment of a daughter to her father from her childhood days of trying "to be his boy" to the grown up's task to be his caregiver in his last years. Including horrific details from the father's WWII Navy service in the Pacific, which the poet memorializes in blunt, terse lines, alongside the harrowing specifics of his decline, Osterman limns a portrait of a complex relationship.
