Bøger af bill bissett

New poems from Canada's shaman of sound and performance poetry, bill bissett.

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 stimulated, provoked, influenced, shocked, and delighted audiences for half a century.

Published for the very first time, I Want to Tell You Love is the combination of Bill bissett and Milton Acorn's seemingly incongruous poetics to confront the turbulent and swiftly changing world of the 1960s. A collection of poems and illustrations, it is a window into the lives and motivations of two soon-to-be-canonized cultural figures.

This is the first novel by legendary poet bill bissett, "a one man civilization."

bill bissett, who recently celebrated his seventieth birthday, remains even in his ¿biblical years¿ Canadäs most exciting, innovative pioneer in the field of the written, spoken, performed, illustrated and sculpted word. No one over the past half century comes close to what bissett has accomplished in pushing the boundaries of language beyond what was imagined in the mid-twentieth century as their furthest possible horizon, and what is most astonishing is that he is still the vanguard of that movement in the ¿language arts¿, not just in Canada, but around the world today. As a way of introducing new readers to the non-hierarchical orthography, syntax and breath-determined metric and cadence so essential to the construction of meaning in the performance scores of his narrative poetry, Talon asked bissett to tell his readers in his own inimitable and ¿raging¿ way what his latest book is ¿about¿:time is reelee abt how evreething is fleeting n how we deel with that n how deeplee we undrstand that awareness th jewels shine as our undrstandings th layrs n openings apertures n iris lens in or not n how manee narrativs reveel our paradoxikul n continualee shifting minds ¿ a storee is what time is it ¿ 4 ourselvs n our specees n how timeless th breth uv th galaxee n oftn ourselvs tho agen fleeting lyrik song chant philosophikal theologikul prsonal propheseez vizual n tanguld tangos ¿ with th invisibul dansrs ¿ n th 4tune tellrs shuffuling theyr decks how we yern 4 n letting go uv our games finding love n th chancs 4 savin th environment n our selvs¿ bill bissett

"sublingual" is perhaps the most highly structured yet of bissett's "textual visions." It begins with a short creation story.

This fusion of song, sound, performance and visual poetry quests for life beyond the perpetual terror of the twenty-first century.

His rejection of the limiting conventions of written language allow bissett to turn any linguistic event into a living performance.

Through narrative, sound, song, meditation, metaphysical, spiritual, political and visual poems, bissett explores the fragility and incompletion of all narratives.

bissett's deliciously comic interrogation of the socio-political events towering around us like so many boxes.

bissett's metric performs a kind of absence of narrative intent that lets everyone and everything speak for itself.

Poems that tell stories on many different levels: through sound, visual images, political insights, non-narrative fusion and linguistic music.

Canada's most linguistically innovative poet takes on the "linear binary traps" of conventional logic, history and politics.

bissett has remained on a permanent world tour for thirty years, writing this book while on a European reading circuit.

When bill bissett thinks "inkorrect thots" anything can happen.

A definitive and comprehensive selection of bissett's work.