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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 28 poetry collections, 11 novels, 3 short story collections, 1 collection of essays and 2 books of plays. Published poetry books include: Dawn in Cities, Assault on Nature, Songs of a Clerk, Civilized Ways, Displays, Perceptions, Fault Lines, Tremors, Perturbations, Rude Awakenings, The Remission of Order, Contusions and D ...more

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Fault Lines

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Resonance: A Poetry Collection

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Sudden Conflicts

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Extreme Change

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Perceptions

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Tremors

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Songs of a Clerk

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Acts of Defiance

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Call To Valor

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Did some Romans, after the battle of Chalons, in 450,
foresee the end of the empire and feel helpless to prevent it? I fear that some Americans, assessing the
Diminishing middle class and the decay of the retail economy, do not realize that we are sinking into a two class society, haves and have-nots, except for servants of the haves.
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