Harnessing power- the goal of writers and readers alike.  Influence- the purpose of language, to inform, enlighten: a spiritual human invention to unlock the imagination, inspired from origins of experience and expertise; an entity itself, empowering the dissemination of thought within the artistic usage of the English language.  Every once in a while a book will fall into your hands that has such a power of influence that you are completely changed as you wrap yourself within the power of its ideas.  But there is more power and freedom to explore outside the boundaries of language trapped in sentences.  The experienced reader who is more inquisitive, demanding, insatiable for the truth and powers of creativity, finds the structure of poetry more informative and enduring; a study in the modes of thought, a release.  You can think it over faster than you can even form the words to describe your experience.

Poetry is an advanced art form of language.  Like a roller-coaster compared to a bus ride.  You can take it like a musical journey within the heights of passion of the pinnacle of a famous composer's work.  Reach a part of untouched, pristine, dark, foreboding, mysteriously beautiful Nature and grasp the artist's most abstract moment of inspiration at the point of intimate desperation.  Painting a picture takes words- the abstract juxtaposition of ideas you just read created an impression.  Sentences are like the day- oftentimes boring.  Poetry is more exciting- the images through the wordplay are like being aware though dreaming.  It's a frontier of your own thoughts within your mind.

The importance of "Embracing a Millennium" lies in power, psychology, and beauty of words and meaning in poetry approaching the most important development in modern history- the power of the West, and the exploitation of land that culminated in the West Coast at Silicon Valley.  The resulting export to the world of technology, biotechnology, and the Internet created waves that still influence each of our daily lives now.  The sudden change, like the Industrial Revolution in the Information industry caused power, money and greed to take the stage with an upper hand, forever altering the way we live.  What happened to the West's San Francisco Bay Area was the beginning of a faster, more dangerous current in the world.

One person, rooted beneath the excitement and change occurring in his environment, in a rural, quiet town, watches it all arrive and hit- the embrace of a deep, inspirational area change to greed and materialism.  The fast, new world had a host of new weapons we see everyday now, but he went underneath to the soul of the past, and within the "karma" of his local environment, broke every advancing ill for seven years of writing, until a peace unfolded from the power of those words.

Read the soul of the world saved, if you will, in the deconstruction of this destructive, mind-manifesting new world we live in every day, in the one person taking the illness of a sped-up life right at the source, and challenging it to submission.  The area's timeless wisdom is its substance of inspiration, not some people's destination of corruption and greed, using the inspirational power of the frontier of the West for that aim.  The wrong will fade in the beauty of dispelling the ill virtues of man.  One person's solution cuts deep right at the source- and the more you are affected and know about those ills the more you will realize from "Embracing a Millennium."

Shipping world-wide.

This book, "Embracing a Millennium," is a book you can take with you to where you are at the top of your game: a trip to the mountains, reading next to a meadow and stream; listening to your most inspirational music; a trip somewhere for a spiritual journey.  Or studying up on the area before visiting it; before a board meeting; learning the psychological soul of the Bay.  I will not be outdone; you will find more in this book because it is right at the top of the game- you add your own thoughts and ideas and experiences into the wordplay, multiple meanings, twisting punctuation, amazing vocabulary that means more than one thing, and end up with answers.  For today's world.

Front cover: San Jose City Hall, present day.  Symbol of the San Francisco Bay Area tech gateway to the world.
Back cover: Example of how it was before.  Old-growth, Mendocino County, CA.

Try these free videos I made with my camcorder of my favorite places on Earth, where I got my inspiration.  There are the secrets that came out, knowing this wilderness of old-growth redwoods was what most of Silicon Valley once was on the peninsula.  Like a ghost-land still, though there are now freeways and high-tech buildings.  Why is the first poem of my book titled "The Valley Oaks?"  Because they were all over the valley, and somehow in their branches, like a fractal from the ground up, still influence the area that grew just like they did.

 
by Mitch Matheu

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