Frederick Feirstein (1940-2020) was a

New Formalist ''The New Formalist'' was a United States-based literary periodical published (since 2001) monthly in electronic form and once a year in print form. Distributed by ''The New Formalist Press'' and edited by Leo Yankevich, it published many of th ...

and

New Narrative New Narrative is a movement and theory of experimental writing launched in San Francisco in the late 1970s by Robert Glück and Bruce Boone. New Narrative strove to represent subjective experience honestly without pretense that a text can be absol ...

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, playwright and psychoanalyst. He published nine books of

poetry Poetry (derived from the Greek ''poiesis'', "making"), also called verse, is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language − such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre − to evoke meanings i ...

, had twelve plays produced, and published numerous psychoanalytic and literary essays. His ninth book of poems, Dark Energy, was published in 2013 as the first book in the Grolier Series of Established Poets. He was a training analyst at the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis and maintained a private practice. Feirstein was a Guggenheim Fellow in poetry. He received the Rockefeller Foundation's OADR Award for his musical drama ''The Children's Revolt.''

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Contributor note at PloughsharesOfficial website of Fred Feirstein Psychoanalyst/Poet/PlaywrightProfessional Psychoanalyst Website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Feirstein, Frederick 2020 deaths American male poets 1940 births Formalist poets