Sublingual is perhaps the most highly structured yet of Bissett's "textual visions." Its first seven poems construct a Genesis, beginning with a poem of birth - our pre- or sub-lingual first breath, a
Famous and celebrated since the 1960s for pushing the boundaries of language and representation in the creation of image as a site of both content and context, the world’s leading sound, visual, concr
bill bissett, who recently celebrated his seventieth birthday, remains even in his ?biblical years” Canada’s most exciting, innovative pioneer in the field of the written, spoken, performed, illustrat
This volume represents the most definitive and comprehensive selection of bissett’s writing from the 1960s and 1970s, in voices ?erotik, politikul, humorous, lyrikul, sound-vizual, narrative, meditati
Written in his unique phonetic language, bill bissett's second novel-poem, hungree throat, recounts the relationship of two men?one bold and unafraid, the other burdened by terrible memories and unabl
th text below is an abbreeveatid transliterasyun uv bill bissetts own descripsyun uv his latest book.?narrativ enigma / rumours uv hurricane is about the fragility and incompletion of all narratives,
A pioneer of sound, visual and performance poetry - eschewing the artificial hierarchies of meaning and the privileging of things ("proper" nouns) over actions imposed on language by capital letters;
In this new collection, bissett writes "poemes uv greef transisyun n sumtimes joy byond binaree constraints if evreething goez what is aneething accepting nihilism lettr texting as an approach 2
breth presents both new and selected poems from legendary Canadian sound, visual, and performance poet bill bissett. bissett’s innovations have shaped poetry, music, painting, and publishing and have
The publication of bill bissett’s Rush: what fuckan theory; a study uv languagein 1972firmly ushered Canadian poetics into the postmodern era. Out of print for 40 years – and reissued here complete wi
For 52 weeks, bill bissett and Carol Malyon met for brunch and conversation at the Golden Griddle in Toronto.This sustained conversational encounter between Carol Malyon, who writes within the objecti
