Unillumined
by Gary Beck For Immediate Release Unillumined is a poetry collection that looks at problems, issues, and disagreements facing our world and some of the things that may console us.
Gary Beck has spent most of his adult life as a theater director and worked as an art dealer when he couldn’t earn a living in the theater. He has also been a tennis pro, a ditch digger and a salvage diver. His original plays and translations of Moliere, Aristophanes and Sophocles have been produced Off Broadway. His poetry, fiction and essays have appeared in hundreds of literary magazines and his published books include 38 poetry collections, 14 novels, 4 short story collections, 1 collection of essays and 7 books of plays. Gary lives in New York City. Purple Unicorn Media is a publisher, registered with Nielsen, owning a tranche of ISBNs and promoting a stable of books. We are here to get you into trade catalogues and bookstores, and have your work archived at the National Libraries. http://www.purpleunicornmedia.com/index.html |
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Interview by Modern Literature Magazine
Double Envelopment Review – Robin Ouzman Hislop
Gary Beck has long been a contributor to Poetry Life and Times Avilla.com over the last decade. In his recent collection of poems Double Envelopment, a collection in response to harsh conditions affecting many of our people, who only want a better future for their children, to quote the author, we already feature some of his poems under the title heading Liberty in Ashes. Beck is a prolific writer, his output over the years is awe inspiring. But what is notable about all his work is his unswerving adherence to style, a particular style, which he never varies from. And this is what is, in my view, one of the most intriguing factors about his works as a poet. It is of course an impeccable style crafted with an expertise at the medium he wishes to portray. His stanzas, often minimal are succinct and pointed directly at the critique he adopts. In fact it is true of most of his works that I have read they are a socio cultural critique viewed from many different perspectives, but always with a compassionate reflection towards the underprivileged and their hardships. Reading his work you follow stanza after stanza in a crisp terse deliberation, that superficially may look simplistically written but in fact are profound and more easily accessible in the form he reaches in them for the reader. Again Beck is a citizen of the USA and much, all in fact of his work centres around its socio cultural milieu. Yet his work is wider than that and finds an appeal and reach of a common humanity that we all embrace. It is a form of poetics that is highly original in its content, because at first glance you are forced to question is this poetry or merely a narrative prose. It is only as you follow the way he develops a theme leading it in its subject matter to deeper enquiry, that you begin to see the subtlety of turn in each stanza poem, of which he seems to have become an adept of past master, rather easier to test than you might imagine, as when you would attempt to imitate one of his own renditions. Double Envelopment has recently been published and is available at: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1910718580
Double Envelopment Reading
A poetry collection
by
Gary Beck
For Immediate Release
Double Envelopment is a poetry collection committed to exploring social, political and economic issues, with particular concern for my divided country. We are not the Koreas and hopefully will not be, but I worry about the troubles that beset so many Americans. I also occasionally indulge in artistic expression, just to present alternatives to those who don’t appreciate doses of reality.
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Double Envelopment is a 104 page poetry book. Available in paperback with a retail price of $14,00 ISBN: 978-1-910718-58-2. Published by Purple Unicorn Media. Available now through all major retailers. For information or to request a review copy, contact: info@purpleunicornmedia.com |
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1910718580
Gary Beck has spent most of his adult life as a theater director and worked as an art dealer when he couldn’t earn a living in the theater. He has also been a tennis pro, a ditch digger and a salvage diver. His original plays and translations of Moliere, Aristophanes and Sophocles have been produced Off Broadway. His poetry, fiction and essays have appeared in hundreds of literary magazines and his published books include 36 poetry collections, 14 novels, 3 short story collections, 1 collection of essays and 7 books of plays. Gary lives in New York City.
Purple Unicorn Media is a publisher, registered with Nielsen, owning a tranche of ISBNs and promoting a stable of books. We are here to get you into trade catalogues and bookstores, and have your work archived at the National Libraries. http://www.purpleunicornmedia.com/index.html
Earth Links Review 2020 Penumbra Vol 30 (California State University Stanislaus)
Interview with The Journal of Expressive Writing
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