On the Cruz: Poems of Santa Cruz

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Poet, philosopher, and dedicated chronicler Ron Lampi brings the unique treasure that is Santa Cruz, California, to life in this collection. A companion column is Lampi's Bay of Monterey, both collections "presenting the parallel running inspirations that begin to bring into form the mythos of place, which today is fundamental to the emerging Mythos of the New Age." From lyrical and comic to serene and passionate, Lampi serenades the joyous contrasts of this vibrant locale with an appreciation that inspires the reader to imagine and experience their own world through the eyes of the artist and poet. The tale of the 1989 earthquake moves one to tears, as do the depictions of some of the street characters who call this place home. Once you dive into it, you will not be able to put this book down... Santa Cruz the Bubble They say people here live in a bubble, that Santa Cruz exists in its own dream world, an illusory of a beautiful bubble dream world, a seducing all over casualness of attitude you find often makes for this fog-brained, fuzzy of a kind'a whatever, hangin' loose-like way of perception- A haven they say Santa Cruz is of the weird & the wacky, a never-wanna-grow-up land of Peter Pans the rest of the adult country, the real world, as they say, loves to poke fun of- Oh, Santa Cruz-weird is the word, you know, a notoriously laid-back, surfin' dude town, lots of your squishy soft, do-gooder, progressive liberals & time-warped flower children left over from the Sixties... But there is so much more about The Cruz, however its shimmering unreality of bubble people here might give all the impression of living in. There is more, there is something quite other, something revelatory you had not expected, happening here- Enter the bubble & you'll find a swirl of a vortex in it, a fitful creativity churning in the cauldron of the bubble- There's new life astir in the swirl of this vortex, in the fitful creativity churning & churning in the cauldron of the bubble, an emerging divine shining presence out here on the continent's edge, where Goddess of this place, our Bay of Monterey, is all so apparent in Her splendor, where, within the bubble -hidden to the pundits of everyday worldliness-, our Goddess is giving birth to the Unheard-of, to burst through from inside the bubble- It is the coming-to-us from out of the Pacific of the future's Golden Child.