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    Galaxia
    Galaxia
    Galaxia
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    Galaxia

    By Alex Andor Skanavis

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    Galaxia begins conceptually where Isaac Asimovs Foundation series ends. (Will we have time to form Galaxia?) Confronted with the task of expanding the last garden on a future war-ravaged Earth, Kreon and his tribe receive assistance in the form of silent, underground allies: the mycelial (mushroom) kingdom. They soon discover these organisms are more than simply catalysts of plant-life, but also trans-galactic portals of intelligence. Composed with poetic style combining the visionary inspirations and wordplays of William Blake, Emily Dickinson & James Joyce, Galaxia is a modern odyssey of ecology, mycology, history and art on a mass-historic scale...a futuristic, yet classical-in style poem venturing forth from science into transcendental science fiction as the mushrooms ability to convey a universal connection with all plants, life and the universe steadily builds, culminating with a double-helix-shaped sonnet sequence that reflects the symbiotic evolutionary leap we face now. Onwards... to Galaxia!
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTrafford Publishing
    Release dateAug 12, 2015
    ISBN9781490762142
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    Alex Andor Skanavis

    Alex Andor Skanavis is a Wisconsin-based poet heavily inspired by twentieth-century naturalist philosophers Walt Whitman, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Jack Kerouac, and Allen Ginsberg, whose words became an ideal medium for imparting the exuberance of nature and ecology. Finding that the Divine Comedy Trilogy by Italian poet Dante could use an update as a naturalism manifesto (using the fluctuating conditions of Earth’s ecology as the analogy for heaven and hell), he completed his first book Gaia in 2012, now succeeded by the heavenly realms of Galaxia. Alex graduated from University of Wisconsin-Madison with an English degree for creative writing in 2013.

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      Galaxia - Alex Andor Skanavis

      Galaxia

      ALEX ANDOR SKANAVIS

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      Copyright 2015 Alex Andor Skanavis.

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      CONTENTS

      Foreword

      Part I Myco-Genesis

      Chapter I Prologue: Paradise Found?

      Chapter II The Ancient Tomes

      Chapter III Expansion of the Garden

      Chapter IV The Mission of the Bee

      Chapter V Legend of the Acorn

      Chapter VI The Discovery

      Chapter VII The Book of Taxonomy

      Chapter VIII Arsenals of Spores

      Chapter IX Charge of the Glow-Cap Council

      Chapter X Vision of The Amanita

      Chapter XI Ancient Medicines

      Chapter XII Assemblage of the Saprophytes

      Chapter XIII Kreon’s Theophany

      PART II Myco-Exodus

      Chapter XIV The Saga of the Spore

      Chapter XV Vision of the Golden Teachers

      Chapter XVI Healing of the Plaguelands

      Chapter XVII Portals of the Past

      Chapter XVIII Healing of the Ashlands

      Chapter XIX Cleansing of the Oceanic Oasis

      Chapter XX Revival of the Rhizosphere

      PART III Myco-Revelations

      Chapter XXI Nectar of the Gods

      Chapter XXII Vision of the Stropharia Cubensis

      Chapter XXIII The Great Sporulation

      Chapter XXIV As Below—So Above?

      Chapter XXV Far Out—Or Far In?

      Chapter XXVI Oceanic Astral Travel

      Chapter XXVII Glass Portals

      Chapter XXVIII Crystalline Entelechy

      Chapter XXIX Lost Frontiers

      Chapter XXX Heiroglyphic Revelations

      Chapter XXXI Kreon’s Message

      Chapter XXXII Epilogue

      APPENDIX I

      FOREWORD

      Blake, Joyce & Dickinson, the top three most profound authors of

      consciousness poetry in the English language, have collectively

      inspired this work’s language and mechanics (in addition to more

      obvious allusions to Shakespeare and Milton). The relatively recent

      re— discoveries of special ecological and spiritual properties of

      mushrooms would have been an amazingly fertile topic for any of

      these master wordsmiths, long-since deceased to fully enjoy the

      subject of mycology’s unlimited possibilities. Re-vitalizing their

      languages has become similar to reconnecting fragments of history

      with a fresh, yet burrowing aggregate force… like mycelium itself.

      JAMES JOYCE: Combining Words/Inventing Words

      Joyce’s connected perceptions are demonstrated by the art of

      carefully combining different words into one, in order to

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