A Field Guide to the Heavens (Brittingham Prize in Poetry)
"In Frank Gaspar's beautiful and exacting book, "A Field Guide to the Heavens," is a compassed and sculptured map that leads to what is purely human. There aren't any abstract angels here, only the breath of quest and raw life--from the symbolic gecko to the mythic Apostle Paul and Caesar. This collection is highly democratic and spiritual, where George Herbert is only a few pages away from Allen Ginsberg. Gaspar's material is composed of the stuff we are made of: an approximation of the old, need-driven songs of the spirit and flesh shaped out of imagination and autobiography."--Yusef Komunyakaa