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Acclaimed poet and novelist Frank X. Gaspar is the first to tell you that every facet of his life was probably shaped by his upbringing in the ever-changing social environment of Provincetown, Mass., in the 1950s and 1960s.
Acclaimed poet and novelist Frank X. Gaspar will speak about the challenges and satisfactions of writing about the Portuguese-American experience at the New Bedford Whaling Museum on Thursday, June 30.
Book: ‘The Poems of Renata Ferreira’ by Frank X. Gaspar – Editor’s Note Posted on 11 January 2020. Renata Ferreira’s poems were composed in the final years of Portugal’s fascist regime, exposing and subverting the government’s draconian edicts against women’s rights, sexual freedoms, political dissent, and progressive thought. While she worked in the resistance as a clandestine writer, passing hand-typed bulletins and banned literature throughout Lisbon, her poetry is unmistakably ardent, tender, fraught, erotic, and Sapphic. Presenting the poems of this Portuguese American...