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Frederick Feirstein's tenth book, Time's Refugee, is chock-full of some of his best lyric and dramatic poems. They are passionate, wise, and totally accessible to the general public. The diction is colloquial and the form excels in meter and rhyme.

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This edition brings together selected poems from all six previous editions of Frederick Feirstein's poetry published between 1974 and 1997. Feirstein is one of the founders of Expansive Poetry which reaches out to audiences beyond the academy and incorporates free verse, formal, and narrative techniques. The poems in this selection combine extraordinary lyric and storytelling skills. A poet of urban anger, humour reconciliation, and revelation. Frederick Feirstein dares to work on an epic scale. His ambitious vision makes for a unique accessible achievement in American poetry. This broad selection of poems is a cause for celebration.

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This collection of poetry by the editor of EXPANSIVE POETRY, focuses on life in New York—in language alternately hip, and nostalgic, the ten characters in “Nomads” focus on abortion, divorce, the forces threatening the neighborhoods, and the need to preserve the family; in “The Psychiatrist At the Cocktail Party: A Dramatic Sequence,” Feirstein presents in formal verse a hilarious, and disturbing cast of urban professionals, sexual bandits, opportunists and international terrorists.

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