Field Guide to the Heavens

Frank X. Gaspars collection of poems is haunted by the presence of mystics andvisionaries Mohammed Buddha St. Paul Augustine George Herbert EmilyDickinson Blake... » 

Frank X. Gaspars collection of poems is haunted by the presence of mystics andvisionaries Mohammed Buddha St. Paul Augustine George Herbert EmilyDickinson Blake Milton Rilke. A Field Guide to the Heavens is punctuatedwith designs of science the wondering and rapt observations of the sky made atthe eyepiece of a backyard telescope. We come to know Gaspars city streetsthe neighbors and strangers that walk them the wreckage of past lives theocean the gardens the orchards and alleys and parking lots all spread outunder the vast sky. «