Frederick Turner is a founder of and a spokesman for two movements in poetry, the New Formalism and the New Narrative, sometimes known collectively as the Expansive movement. However, his approach and methods are distinct from those of the other members of the movement. Turner's philosophy is interdisciplinary, crossing and combining the matrix of global human experience. In his poetry and his criticism, he explores the theories and new discoveries of such sciences as comparative anthropology, neurobiology, sociology, ethnology, evolutionary biology, and paleoanthropology as well as space exploration, to refound a notion of the human and what is common among all human beings. Turner's concern is one for the future. He believes, as he says in The Culture of Hope: A New Birth of the Classical Spirit (1995), that the new millennium will bring about a new cultural history that will "rejoin artist with public, beauty with morality, high...