Frank X. Gaspar
Published Works
Stealing Fatima (novel) Counterpoint, 2009
Night of a Thousand Blossoms (collection of poems) Alice James Books, 2004
A Field Guide to the Heavens (collection of poems), Wisconsin University Press, (Brittingham Prize Book, 1999)
Leaving Pico (novel) Hardscrabble Books, University Press of New England, 1999
Deixando a Ilha do Pico (novel, Portuguese translation) Edicoes Salamandra, Lisbon, 2002
Mass for the Grace of a Happy Death (collection of poems) Anhinga Press, (Anhinga Prize for Poetry, 1994)
The Holyoke (collection of poems) (Northeastern University Press, Morse Prize Book, 1988) and Portuguese in America Series, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth (2007)
Bio
Frank X. Gaspar was born and raised in Provincetown, Massachusetts. A Portuguese-American, his paternal grandparents immigrated from the Island of San Miguel, and his maternal grandparents from the Island of Pico, both in the Azorean Archipelago. His ancestors were traditionally whalers and Grand-Banks fishermen, sailing out of the Islands and then Provincetown. After graduating from Provincetown High School, Gaspar spent a year in New York City and then a year in Boston, Mass. before going to sea himself with the U.S. Navy during the Vietnam War. After his discharge he attended colleges and universities in California, eventually earning his Master of Fine Arts degree from the Graduate Writing Program at the University of California, Irvine.
Fall Semester, 2010, he was the Endowed Chair Professor in Portuguese Studies in the Department of English at UMass Dartmouth. He is also Professor Emeritus at Long Beach City College, Long Beach, California, and often teaches in the Graduate Writing Program at Antioch University, Los Angeles, California.
A number of his books treat Luso-American themes or settings, particularly the Portuguese community in Provincetown, with an insider’s view of the rich ethnic base of this famously diverse Cape Cod town. His poetry and fiction have received numerous awards and honors, and serious critical attention, both in the United States and Portugal.
Website
http://www.frankgaspar.com/index.html
News Articles
Interview of Frank conducted by Ken Roubidoux, Editor-in-Chief of Connotation Press, and also an excerpt from Stealing Fatima at Connotationpress.com (Issue IV, Volume 1: December 2009)
Brookshaw, David (Bristol University, United Kingdom) "Unwriting American History: Frank X. Gaspar's Leaving Pico" in Kinsella, J and Ramos Villar, C (Eds.), in Mid-Atlantic Margins, Transatlantic Identities: Azorean Literature in Context, (pp. 139-149), Seagull/Faoileán: Bristol, 2007. ISBN: 095539225X
Loya, Eric. "An Interview with Poet and Novelist Frank X. Gaspar" in Verdad: A Journal of Literature and Art (Fall 2009)
Monteiro, George (Brown University) "Portuguese-American Poetry in the United States: From Emma Lazarus to Frank Gaspar" —Monteiro, George (Brown University) "Provincetown's Portuguese" an article on Leaving Pico
Sellman, Tamara Kaye. "Happily Living in Mystery: Frank X. Gaspar's natural familiarity with the magical" in Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism (Summer 2005)
Silva, Reinaldo Francisco (Universidade de Aveiro) "Frank Gaspar’s The Holyoke: Childhood as Catalyst for Portuguese-American Writing" in Proceedings of the International Conference for Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Lisbon, 6-8 May 2001
University Press of New England (1999) "An Interview with Frank X. Gaspar"
Wikipedia - Frank X. Gaspar, Article
Stealing Fatima (novel) Counterpoint, 2009
Night of a Thousand Blossoms (collection of poems) Alice James Books, 2004
A Field Guide to the Heavens (collection of poems), Wisconsin University Press, (Brittingham Prize Book, 1999)
Leaving Pico (novel) Hardscrabble Books, University Press of New England, 1999
Deixando a Ilha do Pico (novel, Portuguese translation) Edicoes Salamandra, Lisbon, 2002
Mass for the Grace of a Happy Death (collection of poems) Anhinga Press, (Anhinga Prize for Poetry, 1994)
The Holyoke (collection of poems) (Northeastern University Press, Morse Prize Book, 1988) and Portuguese in America Series, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth (2007)
Bio
Frank X. Gaspar was born and raised in Provincetown, Massachusetts. A Portuguese-American, his paternal grandparents immigrated from the Island of San Miguel, and his maternal grandparents from the Island of Pico, both in the Azorean Archipelago. His ancestors were traditionally whalers and Grand-Banks fishermen, sailing out of the Islands and then Provincetown. After graduating from Provincetown High School, Gaspar spent a year in New York City and then a year in Boston, Mass. before going to sea himself with the U.S. Navy during the Vietnam War. After his discharge he attended colleges and universities in California, eventually earning his Master of Fine Arts degree from the Graduate Writing Program at the University of California, Irvine.
Fall Semester, 2010, he was the Endowed Chair Professor in Portuguese Studies in the Department of English at UMass Dartmouth. He is also Professor Emeritus at Long Beach City College, Long Beach, California, and often teaches in the Graduate Writing Program at Antioch University, Los Angeles, California.
A number of his books treat Luso-American themes or settings, particularly the Portuguese community in Provincetown, with an insider’s view of the rich ethnic base of this famously diverse Cape Cod town. His poetry and fiction have received numerous awards and honors, and serious critical attention, both in the United States and Portugal.
Website
http://www.frankgaspar.com/index.html
News Articles
Interview of Frank conducted by Ken Roubidoux, Editor-in-Chief of Connotation Press, and also an excerpt from Stealing Fatima at Connotationpress.com (Issue IV, Volume 1: December 2009)
Brookshaw, David (Bristol University, United Kingdom) "Unwriting American History: Frank X. Gaspar's Leaving Pico" in Kinsella, J and Ramos Villar, C (Eds.), in Mid-Atlantic Margins, Transatlantic Identities: Azorean Literature in Context, (pp. 139-149), Seagull/Faoileán: Bristol, 2007. ISBN: 095539225X
Loya, Eric. "An Interview with Poet and Novelist Frank X. Gaspar" in Verdad: A Journal of Literature and Art (Fall 2009)
Monteiro, George (Brown University) "Portuguese-American Poetry in the United States: From Emma Lazarus to Frank Gaspar" —Monteiro, George (Brown University) "Provincetown's Portuguese" an article on Leaving Pico
Sellman, Tamara Kaye. "Happily Living in Mystery: Frank X. Gaspar's natural familiarity with the magical" in Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism (Summer 2005)
Silva, Reinaldo Francisco (Universidade de Aveiro) "Frank Gaspar’s The Holyoke: Childhood as Catalyst for Portuguese-American Writing" in Proceedings of the International Conference for Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Lisbon, 6-8 May 2001
University Press of New England (1999) "An Interview with Frank X. Gaspar"
Wikipedia - Frank X. Gaspar, Article
