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About The Central California Poetry Journal
The Central California Poetry Journal began publishing poetry on line in early 1996. The Journal is a project of Solo Publications. The mission of the Journal is to develop and maintain an accessible electronic journal for the publication of poetry written by Central California poets, and others who write poems about the Central California region.
The Central California Poetry Journal is seeking poems that reflect the spirit of California, its land forms and its people. Both published and unpublished poets are invited to submit poems for publication. We may from time to time also include previously published and copyrighted poems from poets in the region with the approval of the poets and/or those holding the copyrights. If you do submit a copyrighted work, please include permission to reprint the work in the Journal.
We will select a few poems each month that best fit the character and subject matter of the Journal. We hope that the Journal will offer something of value to the poets who appear on our pages, and to those who come here to read the poems.
Scott Galloway was born in 1947 in Oakland, California. He spent his childhood in Los Gatos California, where he worked in his family's walnut orchard, and in Ben Lomond in the mountains north of Santa Cruz, California. He began writing poetry seriously in 1965, and has written six books of poetry and numerous journals over the past thirty years. Mr. Galloway is a graduate of Stanford University, where he majored in biological sciences. While at Stanford, he studied poetry under Dr. Diane Middlebrook, in whose classes he read the work of T.S. Elliott, W.H. Auden, Hart Crane, Theodore Roethke and others. Independently, while still in college, he studied extensively the work of Robinson Jeffers. Robinson Jeffers' work was a major influence on Mr. Galloway's early writing. Later significant influences include Gary Snyder, D.H. Lawrence, Richard Brautigan, Kenneth Rexroth, and Chinese and Japanese poetry by various authors. Mr. Galloway's work has also been influenced by the writings of J. Krisnamurti.
Mr. Galloway’s poetry has also been influenced by his interests in mountaineering, back packing and sailing. His poetry often touches on these subjects.
Solo Publications was formed in 1987. Solo Publications’ first published book, VEIL OF MIST, was released in early 1988. VEIL OF MIST is a collection of seventy four poems by Scott Galloway and twenty seven photographs by the poet’s brother Jay Galloway. The seventy four poems of VEIL OF MIST take the reader on a journey into the heart of the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California in their description of the author’s mountain climbing and back country ski experiences. The geographic focal point of the book is the Yosemite region.
THE INFANT SKY, released by Solo Publications with an August 1, 1995 publication date, is an intimate study of the relationship of the human to the eternal. In the 56 poems of THE INFANT SKY Scott Galloway explores the nature of the universe. He finds a place for humanity in that universe. In the night sky above Big Sur, Mr. Galloway finds an appropriate metaphor for the human condition. In the title poem, he describes, "An infant Sky reaching out... with bright searching eyes, seeking stimulus, having received from the void, no reflection, each star, each planet, each creature receiving the pure true light of a million other searching infants... seeking communion, one with another, receiving no echo, but only the pure song, the pure voice of the universe."
Although the poems describe a universe that is beyond human dimension, that universe is alive and conscious. It is by no means indifferent. In the Universe of THE INFANT SKY there is a unifying principle, and that principle is the spirit of being. In this universe, as Mr. Galloway has written "All that is animate, the mountains and the sea, and all contained within them are filled with the Spirit. Its fire, its life burns through them." THE INFANT SKY is filled with reminiscences from over 40 years of wandering the Big Sur Coast. Included are lighter poems like Of Human Hands, which describes a day spent harvesting mussels from the rocks at Garrapata and a shell fish feast on the beach under a starlit sky, and An Honest Woman, which describes a day of painting the canyon of the Big Sur River. Other poems deal with weightier topics like love (The Man of Frogs); peace (On Raven’s Wings); human individuality (The Solitary Coast); and the nature of time and eternity (From the Blood of Whales, In The Cauldron of Time, and In The Phase Of Being).
With the exception of two poems in the third chapter of the book, all of the poems in The Infant Sky were written between 1990 and 1995. The majority of the poems in the book were written in 1994.
The fifteen photo illustrations in THE INFANT SKY were computer generated by Mr. Galloway from photographs of his original oil paintings of Big Sur. Included in the photo illustrations is a series of night paintings of the Big Sur Coast, featuring dramatic visions of the night sky filled with star clusters and galaxies.
Three additional books of poetry by Mr. Galloway are awaiting publication.
Solo Publications books are published in both case bound and quality soft bound editions. Solo Publications distributes books through a direct mail catalog to book stores, through distributors, and on the World Wide Web. Solo Publications books are shipped throughout the United States. They are sold to bookstores, libraries and schools, general retail outlets, and individuals. Copies of VEIL OF MIST have also been sold through non profit environmental organizations, including The Merced River Committee, The Mono Lake Committee, and the Yosemite Association at the Yosemite National Park Visitor's Center. Proceeds from sales by these groups are donated to the non profit organizations.
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