Something I Expected to Be Different

"Despite Beckman's elliptical style, his poems resist the element of collage because his voice finds shape within every fragment. It is a voice that is at once forlorn and passionate and preoccupied with beauty. His ever-present 'vibrations' are genuinely 'heartfelt,' the perceptible thrum of a poet who resists concealing his visceral and emotional impressions. Joshua Beckman's poetry wears its heart on its sleeve, so to speak, and I predict that his influence will challenge other American poets to reach for similar moments of honesty and unequivocal humanity."Beckman, Joshua S. is the author of 'Something I Expected to Be Different', published 2001 under ISBN 9780970367242 and ISBN 0970367244.