Centered around a warehouse theatre in 1976 Berkeley and an ephemeral literary magazine called The Punctual Actual Weekly, the story combines cultural history, biography and literary analysis in a thought-provoking memoir about the artist's struggle. It depicts the expansion of the poet's mind under the shaping influences of modern poetics in the pursuit of transcendence. In reprinting some of the pages of the magazine the entire spectrum of writing endeavors, including poetry, news writing, play writing, narrative, solo theatre, chanting based on an innovative sound language is evidenced. As well as a poets notebook in graphic novel format, and the catalog of an artist's show. This story of a Castaneda-like apprenticeship to the many word-shamans of modern literature, shows a mind fraught with personal challenges holding a precarious balance between acceptance and inundation and is often hilarious.
Michael Lyons, moon child, born on the last day of June, in Montreal, of French / Irish / Scotch ancestry. Immigrated to America, grew up in San Antonio, to experience a second linguistical minority.
He now lives in San Francisco with wife and son. Lyons has authored a dozen literary books: 8 novels, a memoir, several scattered poetry chapbooks; and several dozen technical books.
He is working on the last novel of a sextet called "My Years of Apprenticeship at Love."
These in order are: Sex is the Antigravity of Metamorphosis, The Indigenous Tribesmen of Neverland, Dolores Park, Seeing through the Spell of Transference, A Blue Moon in August, Thoughts on Vacation.
Rich in content, these works eschew mindless suspense and the juvenile hero-worship plot for a more lyrical joyous expression. Love is an apprenticeship to the sign system of the beloved. What else is a poet going to write about?
Previously he wrote the trilogy called "Little House on the Prairie"
These in order are: Cultivating the Texas Twister Hybrid, The Secret of the Cicadas's Song, Knight of a 1000 eyes.
These are lyrical boho novels set in Texas.
He has also written The Punctual Actual Weekly about a theatre ensemble in Berkeley and a literary magazine.
