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Norman Finkelstein is a poet and literary critic. His books of poetry include Restless Messengers (Georgia, 1992) and the three-volume serial poem Track: Track, Columns, and Powers (Spuyten Duyvil 1999, 2002, 2005). His most recent book is Passing Over, a volume of poems containing work from the late 1980s through the mid 1990s (Marsh Hawk, 2007). Norman has written extensively about modern and postmodern poetry, and about Jewish American literature. His books of criticism are The Utopian Moment in Contemporary American Literature (Bucknell, 1988, 1993), The Ritual of New Creation: Jewish Tradition and Contemporary Literature (SUNY, 1992), Not One of Them In Place: Modern Poetry and Jewish American Identity (SUNY, 2002) and Lyrical Interference: Essays on Poetics (Spuyten Duyvil, 2004). Recent poems, essays and reviews have appeared in Chicago Review, Cincinnati Review, Talisman, American Literary History, Twentieth Century Literature and on the website of the Cultural Society. He is currently writing a book on religious revisionism in contemporary long poems, and researching the scriptural sources of Charles Reznikoff's poetry.
Norman Finkelstein was born in New York City in 1954. He received his B.A. from Binghamton University and his Ph.D. from Emory University. He is a Professor of English at Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he has taught since 1980.
As for the availability of the books, Passing Over can be obtained through SPD http://www.spdbooks.org. Lyrical Interference, the three volumes of Track and my other critical works are on Amazon.