Eating the Reflection of an Echo

By John Beach

Eating the Reflection of an Echo is a collection of 35 poems, the subjects of which are mostly rooted in technology or in how humans shape or will or have been shaped by our technologies, particularly the Internet and Artificial Intelligence. The Internet has become mostly a catering service that also feeds upon us; and AI is designed to mimic certain aspects of human behavior and intelligence, and... love it, hate it, or fear it, AI is a product of human ingenuity and creativity. Possibly we may become self-absorbed in it. To our many senses, our computational devices have become the mirror upon our vanity. As to whether or not we will use said vanity to store our makeup or allow it to define our makeup, is certainly a question we need to answer for ourselves. When I seek answers or need to reduce stress, I enjoy unwinding myself and working through the puzzle-like word mathematics involved in writing a terzanelle poem.

• Language: English
• Publisher: John Beach
• Release date: Apr 18, 2023
• ISBN: 9798215565308

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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