Title: Night of a Thousand Blossoms
First published: 2004
Description: “Gaspar’s poems look dense upon the page—and float like a thousand blossoms in the wind.”
—<em>Library Journal</em>

“Gaspar’s long, prose-like lines—like translations from dreams—surround the reader with their capaciousness and flowing diction.”
—<em>Los Angeles Times Book Review</em>

“[Frank Gaspar] is one of the best poets writing today.”
—<em>The Bloomsbury Review</em>

“. . .one is carried upward by the cool, ineffable beauty [Gaspar’s poems] exude.”
—<em>Library Journal</em>

“Gaspar is a genuine talent, a true poet, a real seeker. Trust him; his poems will take you on profound journeys.”
—<em>Booklist</em>

“Frank Gaspar’s poems are agile and forceful, their narratives clear and absorbing. In them he is speaking to the reader—but also to himself, or perhaps to some hazy divinity, or to the blue sky. I felt in his voice no attempt to persuade me of anything. I felt only the abiding imperative to get it right. Which is, of course, what real writing is all about.”
—Mary Oliver

“No one in America writes as Frank Gaspar does. His poetic voice is distinctive. His poems mutter and fuss in the tone of the sage awake and singing through the night to worry, as we do, the state of the soul in contemporary life. Father, lover, scholar, friend, and poet, he speaks for us as no one else can. And I for one am grateful for this fabulous book.”
—Hilda Raz

“Any book that begins with a poem titled ‘I Go Out for a Smoke and Become Mistaken for the Archangel’ and ends on the sentence ‘And so I kicked and kicked’ is bound to contain grand evolutions, and Gaspar delivers. The path he so often weaves—from questions, through catalog of pathetic fallacies, to abstracted answers—can be a stunning rhetorical tapestry….Gorgeous.”
—<em>Provincetown Arts</em>
Subjects: Poetry, American poetry, 21st century poetry, Poetry (poetic works by one author)
LC classification: PS3557.A8448 N54 2004