This long awaited revised edition of Story Line Press's first controversial and influential anthology contains 16 essays by leading poet-critics on the New Narrative and the New Formalism, the most compelling movement in American poetry since Ginsberg and the Beats. New Expansive Poetry also includes ten statements by women poets on the use of form and an up-to-date introduction by editor R.S. Gwynn. Contributors include Rita Dove, Dana Gioia, Marilyn Hacker, Mark Jarman, Mary Jo Salter, and Timothy Steele, among others.