City Life

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This collection of poetry by the editor of EXPANSIVE POETRY, focuses
on life in New Yorkin 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.

Author Bio

Frederick Feirstein has had nine previous books of poems published, seven by Story Line and the Quarterly Review of Literature. He has been the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Poetry Society of Americas John Masefield Award, and Englands Arvon Prize. Twelve of his plays have been produced. Three are musical dramas, his lyrics deriving from his poetry. His third Uprising will be done as a film. He made his living writing film and television while he trained as a psychoanalyst. He is in private practice in New York City and on the faculty of the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis. His autobiography is in the Contemporary Authors Autobiography Series and his biography in the Dictionary of Literary Biography.