Mass for the Grace of a Happy Death 1994 Anhinga Prize for Poetry

Poetry. " Frank Gaspar's beautifully wrought poems in this exquisite book surge with the heat of human desire fueled by the luminosity of a transient grace. These are extraordinary poems-precise, musically complex, darkly radiant, and startlingly wise. Their power accrues exponentially, as Gaspar's lamentations, half-spoken prayers, and songs of the flesh and spirit collide and merge into a seamless quest for an affirmation of existence, wherein each of us must 'walk so tenuously among the tenuous living'"---Maura Simon.Gaspar, Frank X. is the author of 'Mass for the Grace of a Happy Death 1994 Anhinga Prize for Poetry' with ISBN 9780938078388 and ISBN 0938078380.