so we beat on,' dave e. ahlman's second book of poems, looks at contemporary life through four lenses-religious, educational, American & physical experience-in an attempt to dissect the purposes of postmodern existence. It is self-aware, self-contradictory, self-absorbed, self-aggrandzing, self-doubting, self-sufficient & self-mastering. It grapples with the misunderstood Gen Y spirit, mind, heart & body vying for answers in a world with too many options-too much consumerism, terror & techno