Osgood

<p>In the late 1800s Osgood Indiana a small plains town is hardly the setting for a bucolic pastoral.</p><p> </p><p>Deborah Allbritain's poems along with period photographs evoke a vision of a courageous young woman living in Osgood. Through her eyes we discover shape shifting the magic of pigs possible Romanovs disappearing houses unrequited same sex loves and other truths of small-town Osgood.</p><p> </p><p>Various narrative threads weave through the collection lean against each other and reflect. We meet Oscar and Millicent Nikanor Manly DeBeck and Mr. Woolsey Lilla May Barker and others.<strong> </strong>The townspeople of Osgood have their own provocative loves betrayals hopes tragedies and gender issues that they wish for the most part to keep hidden in their lifetimes.</p>