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The Bear Wrestler

The Bear Wrestler

Ostrom, Robert

Paperback

General ParentingGeneral Poetry

ISBN10: 1947817787
ISBN13: 9781947817784
Publisher: Saturnalia Books
Published: Mar 15 2025
Pages: 134
Weight: 0.36
Height: 0.32 Width: 5.50 Depth: 7.50
Language: English
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 anthropomorphism, other times free to simply be a bear, each incarnation peels back layers of masking. With empathy and wit, The Bear Wrestler reveals how masculinity and conceit get inscribed in the blood through storytelling. Prepare to wrestle with the lyrical truths that only a bear can reveal and to explore the delicate balance between fiction and reality in this evocative book.

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