Late Rapturous, Paperback

In his fifth poetry collection, Gaspar's poems are spacious and awake, in touch with faith and anxiety, and unafraid to wander. These poems are multi-layered with Judeo-Christian allusions and metaphysical images of faith.

FRANK X. GASPAR was born and raised in the old Portuguese West End of Provincetown, Massachusetts. A graduate of the MFA program in writing at the University of California, Irvine, he is the author of five collections of poetry and two novels. Among his many awards are the Morse, Anhinga, and Brittingham Prizes for poetry, multiple inclusions in Best American Poetry, four Pushcart Prizes, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Literature, and a California Arts Council Fellowship in poetry. He was also a John Atherton Fellow at Bread Loaf, and a Walter Dakin Fellow at Sewanee. His debut novel, Leaving Pico was a Barnes and Noble Discovery Prize winner, a recipient of the California Book Award for First Fiction and a New York Times Notable Book (paperback edition). His second novel Stealing Fatima was a MassBook of the Year in Fiction (Massachusetts Foundation for the Book).