Len Gasparini is the award winning author of numerous books of poetry, five short-story collections, two children’s books, a work of non-fiction, and a one-act play.

Len Gasparini’s poems are sung with passion in a rich, original language. These poems are not pieced dryly together out of what Blake called a ‘mechanical talent’ for language, they arise unbidden and necessary.

A reading of The Social Life of String will demonstrate what attending to life looks like as Gasparini turns the world into poetry.

Götterdämmerung joins a recent body of environmental poetry?—?see work by Juliana Spahr and Jorie Graham, among others?—?that recognizes the irremediably damaged state of our environment and eschews grand visions of an unblemished nature beyond civilization’s reach. It tests the powers of a nature poetry that has abandoned hope for ecological restoration. The poem’s kaleidoscopic structure reflects the disorder and disharmony it depicts. An Eliotic shoring of fragments against ruins?—?rather than any kind of wholesale renewal of the earth?—?seems all that is possible amid the destruction.