City Life

This collection of poetry by the editor of EXPANSIVE POETRY, focuseson life in New York-in language alternately hip, and nostalgic, the tencharacters 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.