Gary Beck Knihy

Gary Beck's new collection Virtual Living is a revealing glimpse at how our relationship with the world around us is an ever-evolving experience. Focusing on how humans relate to the world via artificial means, as well as through self-imposed affected mechanisms, Beck looks at the concept of living virtually from all angles and tells his story with just enough abstractness to move readers to choose how they want to inhabit their own worlds. A peek into humanity in ways most of us forget to see, these poems will shift any reader's perspective of how they relate to others, technology, and the world.

Turbulence is a poetry collection that reveals the unrest and disturbances in the most complex society in history.

Flawed Connections is about Four close friends who leave Yale to start a computer gaming business. Start-up money allows them a luxurious, continent spanning lifestyle, while developing their first game. It is a hit that attracts hordes of devoted gamers and instantly the pressure of follow-up games and personality quirks haunt the friends. This success allows an even higher upscale lifestyle that leaves them in a quandary when disaster strikes.

A journey through some of the modern horrors that assault our senses in the passionate search for better understanding of our tormented world.

Ignition Point is a poetry collection that looks at some of the struggles and tensions of our times, in what is a confusing life for so many of us.

Joe Slade was shattered when his fiancée was killed in a terrorist attack in Paris. It took months for him to start functioning normally at getting rich, but he was obsessed about avenging the loss of her on the terrorists. He trained in martial arts, a woman friend joined him in his quest to get the men who sent the terrorists. Her only demand, no suicide mission. They went to Paris, he learned there was no way to find the terrorists and they returned to New York. Joe determined to get on with his life and become super rich.

The poems provide an ample proof that the poet is full of powerful imagination and profound feelings. The style in all these poems is quite simple devoid of any artificial vocabulary.

Joe Slade grew up on a hardscrabble farm in poverty and ignorance. He was expected to leave school and make moonshine for the Slades. He became a skillful Lacrosse player and got a scholarship to Duke University. He worked at a resort hotel and made friends there with a man who was the leader in exile of the Catalan party for independence from Spain. Joe learned Spanish and Catalan and visited Barcelona where he found his first real home and loving family While working as an investor and becoming rich, he met and fell in love with a Catalan girl. They were in Paris she was killed in a terrorist attack that he barely survived while trying to save her. Devastated by the loss of the love of his life Joe started to obsess about revenge on the terrorists.

Unillumined is a poetry collection that looks at problems, issues, and disagreements facing our world, and some of the things that may console us.