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This collection of essays is an attempt by bill bissett's family to define a brother for whom brotherhood is the desideratum behind every brush stroke or utterance. bill bissett is family to everyone who knows him, as he has created a grid of light that connects strangers. Included are essays by Jaime Reid, Jay Ruzesky, Susan Musgrave, Joy Kurapatwa, Scott Watson, Adeena Karasick, and Tim Carlson.
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When bill bissett thinks inkorrect thots" anything can happen.
sublingual is perhaps the most highly structured yet of bissett's "textual visions." It begins with a short creation story.
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bissett has remained on a permanent world tour for thirty years, writing this book while on a European reading circuit.
bill bissett and Milton Acorn are two of Canada's most significant, and most controversial, literary figures. In the 1960s, bissett's renown as an experimental poet was growing as his social and political concerns were stirred by the voice of the counterculture. Acorn, inspired by socialist theory and imagism, was building his reputation as a poet on the margin who ran against the grain of the literary establishment. Both were rising towards cultural prominence--one, a true beatnik and the other, a certifiably rugged lyric poet. In 1965 they came together in a remarkable collaboration, a challenge to the established literary tradition and a call for a better world. Published for the very fir...
A definitive and comprehensive selection of bissett's work.
Critical study of the visual art of bill bissett, internationally recognized as a pioneer of concrete, sound and performance poetry.
Poems written in the author's own phonetic language.