Frederick Feirstein

Frederick Feirstein (born 1940) is an American poet and playwright.

Life[]

Feirstein works as a psychoanalyst in New York City.

He has published 8 books of poetry and has had 12 plays produced. His 8th book of poems, Fallout, was published by Word Tech Communications in May 2008.

Recognition[]

Feirstein has been a Pulitzer Prize finalist and has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.^[1] Prizes he has received include the Poetry Society of America's John Masefield Award, England's Arvon Foundation Prize, and The Quarterly Review of Literature's International Prize.

Publications[]

Poetry[]

The Family Circle. London: Davis-Poynter, 1973. ISBN 978-0-7067-0075-6
Survivors. New York: Seagull, 1974.
Walking Away. Southampton, MA: Advent Books, 1975.
Manhattan Carnival: A dramatic dialogue. Woodstock, VT: Countryman Press, 1981. ISBN 978-0-914378-69-3
Fathering: A sequence of poems. Cambridge, MA: Apple-wood Books, 1982. ISBN 978-0-918222-33-6
City life: Poems. Brownsville, OR: Story Line Press, 1991. ISBN 978-0-934257-76-3
New and selected poems. Brownsville, OR: Story Line Press, 1998. ISBN 978-1-885266-50-7
Fallout. Cincinnati, OH: Word Press, 2008. ISBN 978-1-934999-09-7
Dark Energy. Cambridge, MA: Grolier Poetry Book Shop, 2013.

Play[]

Masquerade. American Society of Theatre Arts, 1974.

Non-fiction[]

Expansive Poetry: Essays on the new narrative and the new formalism. Santa Cruz, CA: Story Line Press, 1989.
"Psychoanalysis and Poetry". Partisan Review, 64:3, (1997), 433