Poem Fire: New and Selected Poems

Spanning more than thirty years of work, Frank X. Gaspar’s Poem Fire: New and Selected maps an American landscape suspended between the luminous and the familiar.

In a voice both bold and vulnerably intimate, these poems meditate on longing through an attention to the world’s smallest gestures—an attention that is not mere sentimentality but an act of resistance against erasure and disappearance. Gaspar turns with equal care to overlooked lives: waitresses, truck drivers, travelers—figures ...