FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS

This book is the autobiography of a lawyer, born in the Bronx of immigrant parents, who practiced law, served as dean of Fordham Law, participated in framing the Constitution's Twenty-Fifth Amendment, and served as President of the New York City Bar Association and chair of State Commissions on government integrity.

Forms of a World argues that poetic innovations of contemporary Anglophone poetry shape and are shaped by global forces. The poets in this book sense these conditions before they are made fully present and offer various responses to global transformation.