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Gaia / Literature / Philosophy / Poetry / Peyote / Archtypes / Semantics
The Secret of the Cicadas' Song
Michael Lyons
"An extended open field poem. A celebration of the nature experience. This book carries forward ol Ez's work in ideograms and images. "—Lary James J. Helmholtz, Professor of Comparative Literature, UT Austin
The Secret of the Cicadas' Song
The Secret of the Cicadas' Song is an extended internal monolog of a man walking through the fields on peyote.
Through semantics, semiotics, logic, fractals, chaos theory, sound, haiku, symbols, archetypes etc. the poem induces, a swooning nominal neumenal drug experience. We are present while the consciousness of the poem constructs various notation systems as the words in his language become objects.
One generative hypothesis of the poem is:
What would happen if Ezra Pound and Charles Dodson collaborated
about being influenced by Wittgenstein, Hilbert, Dirac,
Mandelbrot, Basho, Burroughs, Borges, Bukowski, Cendrars,
Saunders...
The time of the book is a peyote trip. One is brought to the immediacy of the experience through haiku poetry and to the ineffable aspect of the experience through object verse and semantic object modeling of the archetypes of perception. The point of view shifts from the individual consciousness to the mind of Gaia.
The book promotes nature study and encourages a more profound interaction between humans and the natural world.
Michael Lyons is a freelance writer of fiction,
technical manuals and theatre performance in San Francisco. He
received his B.A.in Natural Philosophy from the University of
Texas, Austin. He is author of several novels including two more
in this trilogy. They areThe Secret of the Cicadas' Song,
andKnight of 1000 eyes, also published by HiT MoteL
Press.
Dec 98
151 pp. 5.5 x 8.5
ISBN 0-9655842-1-6 Paper $20.00