Gaspar, Frank X.

Frank X. Gaspar is the author of four books of poetry: THE HOLYOKE (1988), Mass for the Grace of a Happy Death (1995), A Field Guide to the Heavens (2002) and NIGHT OF A THOUSAND BLOSSOMS (2004), as well as the novel Leaving Pico (1999). His writing has won numerous awards and prizes, including a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry, the 1988 Morse Poetry Prize, the 1994 Anhinga Prize, the 1999 Brittingham Prize in Poetry, a California Arts Council Fellowship in Poetry, the California Book Award, and a Barnes and Noble Discover Award. Gaspar's work has appeared widely in magazi...