Poetry. Born in New York City, Finkelstein is a poet and literary critic. His Previous books include Restless Messengers, and the three-volume serial poem TRACK: TRACK. He has written extensively about modern and postmodern poetry, and about Jewish Literature. After the Track Trilogy, one of the most brilliant and audacious works in recent American literature, what a pleasure to discover these earlier poems by Norman Finkelstein. Lyrical, probing, and always finely wrought, there is a tenderness in this book that can break your heart--Paul Auster.