The Holyoke, reissued here in a new edition, was the first collection of poems by one of America's distinctive voices in contemporary poetry. In this book Frank X. Gaspar establishes his landscape, his straightforward diction, his precise observation, and his loyalty to his roots - qualities that continue to develop throughout his later work.
An elegy to a lost world one peopled with fisherman, laborers, wives and mothers, all adhering, to one degree or another, to an Old-World Catholic way of life.
