One of the founders of the Expansive poetry movement, Frederick Feirstein has championed the reestablishment of formal verse, verse narrative, and verse satire in American poetry--just the prescription, he feels, for bringing poetry back to the people and tearing it out of the rarified climate of academia where it has languished, self-referentially, for half a century. His own poetical works focus on the postmodern beauty and brutality of his native New York City, the obsessively sexual orientation of classic New York-style psychoanalysis, and the problem of Jewishness in American identity. His sense of outrage sets his work apart from the poetry of his quieter, more introspective academic colleagues in the New Formalist movement. Indeed, although he is considered one of America's foremost and most original New Formalist poets by those in the movement, Feirstein objects strongly to the ascendancy of that term over the broader intent of Expansive...