Michael Lyons

The Punctual Actual Weekly Michael Lyons

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.