8th Avenue South

Collection of poetry (1974-2013) by Chester County PA writer and teacher. Beck was greatly influenced by the philosophy of Husserl and Heidegger. He calls his poetry ontopoietic. He has tried over the years in his writing to answer Heidegger's call for a new language of philosophy. Beck feels that this new language may be poetry and the use of poetic devices like metaphor to express the true nature of Being.