John Beach: 15 books

John Beach's sixth collection of poetry. The 35 terzanelle poems in this collection are about memory, what information we choose to store about the present (soon to become the past), and how we alter it each time that we think about it in the present. We do this consciously and subconsciously. It...

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,...

John Beach's eighth collection of poetry. The 36 (mostly) terzanelle poems in this collection are reflections on difficult, transitional, and tired moments in the author's life, but there’s also fun and opportunities. The terzanelle is a French/Italian adaptation of the terza rima to the...

Labyrinth Men is John Beach’s ninth collection of poetry. The 36 terzanelle poems in this collection are mostly the ranting of a middle-aged man who’s feeling even older than that. The terzanelle is a French/Italian adaptation of the terza rima to the villanelle form. Each terzanelle is...

John Beach's third collection of poetry. These 35 (mostly) terzanelle poems peer into the innerworkings and day-to-day ventures of the author as he struggles to not put the past so much in front of him. He also spends just a wee bit too much time inside of Doctors' offices and at Urgent Care. The...

A dead computer analyst and his guardian angel try to win themselves a secondlife in a broken, Viking world system left devastated and nearly emptied by the Ragnarök. Conceived in the 1970’s and left mouldering in the would-be author’s mind for 40 years, John Beach’s Life Longing explores...

The Missed Creations is a collection of horror stories by John Beach. Primarily conceived in the 1980s, these tales lived fragmented, uncompleted lives only in the mind of the author, a mind too busy with other aspects of its own life to give them the attentive care they deserved. The author has,...

John Beach's fifth collection of poetry. The 35 terzanelle poems in this collection are about identity: both the secret identity and the public persona. I have chosen 26 characters from classic literature, theater, the Pulps, comic books, and radio programs, each of whom uses a hidden identity (or...

A collection of twelve terzanelle poems influenced by Norse mythology, specifically regarding the afterlife. The poems explore key locations and concepts of the Germanic underworld. Yeah, this is pretty obscure stuff even for fans of the mythology.The terzanelle is French/Italian adaptation...

A collection of 35 poems, mostly terzanelles, exploring how family, work enviroments, and seeking love have helped shape who I am today: an educator in mind, a small town grocer in soul, and a comic book hero at heart. I can get mired down with the dark of the world, or I can try to do something about...

Tedford Theodore and Tanjakwunu discover gold on their property near Almont, Colorado, but they also realize that United States' mining laws will award this gold to their neighbors, The Devil's Own Mining Company. Believing the law unfair, the two middle-aged friends decide to work the mine secretly...

*    “I wear my uniform with honor. It has the Order of Lenin on it. It has been covered in blood in battle. It is plain to see that with American women what is important is whether they wear silk underwear under their uniforms. What the uniform stands for, they have yet to learn”*. - 'Lady...

Examinations of wargaming for entertainment, education, and military planning, in terms of design, critical analysis, and historical contexts. Games with military themes date back to antiquity, and yet they are curiously neglected in much of the academic and trade literature on games and game...

A comprehensive review of research examining intermediary mechanisms to understand the link between genetic variation and addiction liability. Although there is scientific consensus that genetic factors play a substantial role in an individual's vulnerability to drug or alcohol addiction, specific...