Joe

By John Beach

John Beach's fourth collection of poetry. This time around, the 20 terzanelle poems included are works of sequential fiction, which revolve around the life of a young boy. After Joe's mother moves half way around the world without him, Joe is transplanted into new surroundings and culture. There, he befriends a pig, and, within an old photograph, discovers what he believes to be a great mystery

The terzanelle is a French/Italian adaptation of the terza rima to the villanelle form. Each terzanelle is meant to be 19 lines long (ten syllables each), composed of five triplets with a concluding quatrain, and are written in iambic pentamater. I don't pay much attention to where my metrical feet are stepping, but I enjoy the puzzle-like nature of this form and the subtlety of the repeating lines, the variations in meaning. I also enjoy breaking the lines and changing punctuation.

• Language: English
• Publisher: John Beach
• Release date: Apr 12, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301436293

John Beach

John describes himself now as “the evolutionary result of Paperboy to Grocery Store Worker to Professional College Student to Magazine Editor to Computer Night Operator to Jr. Database Programmer to System Administrator to Computer Consultant to College Professor to Dean of Information Technology to Retired Old Guy Who's Really Not Old Enough To Be Retired.” He’s always been around writing and has used it daily in his professional life. He's used it in his leisure time, too, often when he plotted out D&D adventures that he and his players communally craft together around the dining room table and on Zoom. John’s always loved stories, always had them forming, churning, and reshaping in his brain. It wasn’t until he began closing in on an early retirement (for health reasons) that he began to get those stories out of his head and into text documents and then released into the world through ePublishing.You can visit with John on Facebook. He’d love to hear from you regarding his written work (and your hobbies), and he would greatly appreciate it if you could write reviews for his books. Ask him for free coupons if you need them. He only puts prices on his most recent books so that people will take them more seriously. The money’s not important: his stories and poems just want to be read.

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Joe

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John J. Beach

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Joe

Copyright © 2013 by John J. Beach

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License Notes:

This collection of poetry is licensed for personal use only. It may not be re-sold or redistributed. If you would like to gift this book to another, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it and it was not purchased for/gifted specifically to you, then please obtain a legal copy of your own. Thank you for respecting the efforts of the author.

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Contents

Introduction: Joe

Airport Terminal

Flying in the SUV

Dwelling Place

Rough Housing

Petting Livestock

Member of the EPA

Further Basement Detail

Hitting the Bricks

Immurement Empathy

Social Function and the Secondhand Eight Year Old

Inter Networking

Curves and Tangential Lines

Ends of the Earth

Aetiolation

Devising

Watching the Boy Play

Pig Iron

Pedestrian Priest, Bicycling Boy

Ōþala