Gaspar's collection of poems is haunted by the presence of mystics and visionaries: Mohammed, Buddha, St. Paul, Augustine, George Herbert, Emily Dickinson, Blake, Milton, Rilke. "A Field Guide to the Heavens is punctuated with designs of science, the wondering and rapt observations of the sky made at the eyepiece of a backyard telescope. We come to know Gaspar's city streets, the neighbors and strangers that walk them, the wreckage of past lives, the ocean, the…
Author: Frank X. Gaspar · Original publisher: University of Wisconsin Press (1999)
Tier 3 — Partial text + link. No text is hosted on Gary NOI. Read free: https://archive.org/details/fieldguidetoheav0000gasp (Internet Archive lending copy — borrowable; IA item ID as recorded in Tranche B1: fieldguidetoheav0000gasp; no hosting rights).
