Arkania: A Lucid Odyssey

By Alex Andor Skanavis

Arkania is an odyssey of limitless proportions: a spirit quest dedicated to dreamers and pioneers alike. Using the forgotten art of epic poetry, Arkania chronicles the adventures of a young visionary, who becomes initiated in an otherworldly academy of dreamers known as The Astral Alliance. Her increasing abilities, however, threaten the source of dark energies operating light-years away across the Spiral Arm—where Arcturus, her unfulfilled hero awaits. As the struggle between the corruption and salvation of both worlds unfolds, new destructive energies consume each slumbering world. The floating glass fortress of the Astral Alliance—and Arkania—become civilizations’ final safeguard against apocalyptic forces. Classical in style, yet futuristic in scope, this work explores the powers of unlocking imagination, the mystery of the subconscious mind, astral traveling, and the mysterious effect that dreaming has upon our waking world.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Trafford Publishing
• Release date: Jun 10, 2021
• ISBN: 9781698703183

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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