The Holyoke

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Poetry. THE HOLYOKE was the first collection of poems by one of America's distinctive voices in contemporary poetry. Here, Frank X. Gaspar establishes his landscape, his straightforward diction, his precise observation, and his loyalty to his roots-qualities never abandoned and developed throughout his later work. As a whole, the book can be read as an elegy to a lost word-one peopled with fishermen and laborers and wives and mothers, all adhering, to one degree or another, to an Old-World Catholic way of life. ...
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Overview


Poetry. THE HOLYOKE was the first collection of poems by one of America's distinctive voices in contemporary poetry. Here, Frank X. Gaspar establishes his landscape, his straightforward diction, his precise observation, and his loyalty to his roots-qualities never abandoned and developed throughout his later work. As a whole, the book can be read as an elegy to a lost word-one peopled with fishermen and laborers and wives and mothers, all adhering, to one degree or another, to an Old-World Catholic way of life. The old ones, the velhos and velhas, still speak in the old tongue and dream of the green hills of their Azorean homeland. That world has largely vanished, but it is not completely lost, for the poet keeps it alive, first in memory and then in art. THE HOLYOKE explores the small raptures and terrors, the jubiliations and laments, of a life both profoundly sensed and gracefully examined.
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"Frank Gaspar's poems are agile and forceful, their narratives are clear and absorbing, the collection does that difficult thing--it transcends its own total and becomes more than itself."
Mary Oliver
"Frank Gaspar's poems are agile and forceful, their narratives are clear and absorbing, the collection does that difficult thing--it transcends its own total and becomes more than itself."
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781933227207
  • Publisher: Tagus Press at UMass Dartmouth
  • Publication date: 8/1/2007
  • Series: Portuguese in the Americas Series
  • Edition description: New Edition
  • Edition number: 2
  • Pages: 96
  • Sales rank: 1,289,280
  • Product dimensions: 6.00 (w) x 8.80 (h) x 0.30 (d)

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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 magazines and journals throughout the country, and he has been included in multiple editions of the Best American Poetry and Pushcart Prize anthologies. Born and raised in Provincetown, Massachusetts, he holds a Masters of Fine Arts degree in creative writing from University of California, Irvine. He now lives in southern California.
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Table of Contents

Introduction Author's Preface Deer, Swimming The Harbor in Winter Tia Joanna Leaving Pico Potatoes Ernestina the Shoemaker's Wife Beachcombing For No One First Snow Answering Singing to the Dead The Holyoke Catechism How the Soul Leaves the Body and Finds Its Place in the Presence of God Amazing Grace Diving for Money Who Is Hans Hofmann and Why Does the World Esteem Him?
The Old Town Stealing Seed Clams from the Marsh The Old Cellar on Don Sutherland's Property Crawley's Woods The Woman at the Pond In the Dunes Trying to Remember Swing Valley Descent Ice Harvest August Limpets The Old Country Silence His Face Marriage Waking The World as Will and Idea Catwalk Carmelita Raez The Bullet Hole in the Twelfth-Street Door Passing February, The Moors November, California The Resting Place Joshua Trees Old Bones, Breakwater Golden Colt Ranch
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