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	Bill Bissett
		Bill Bissett (whose name is often not capitalised) is a Canadian poet famous for his anti-conventional style.
		Bill Bissett is now based in Toronto, Ontario.
		"Bill Bissett: Subversion et poesie concrete." Etudes Litteraires 19.2 (1986): 81-108.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/bi/Bill_Bissett.html (305 words)

	100 Canadian Poets - bill bissett - Profile
		bill bissett was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia in 1939.
		As the publications of blewointment would suggest, bissett's style is anti-conventional and ranges across various media.
		League of Canadian Poets - bill bissett in th whirlwind University of Manitoba
	www.ucalgary.ca /UofC/faculties/HUM/ENGL/canada/poet/b_bissett.htm (283 words)

	bill bissett: controversies and definitions
		Bissett's poetry and that of the blewointment coterie is meant to sound like street language, the language of the people in the street, albeit the severely limited vocabulary of a narrow-minded and elitist neighbourhood.
		Indeed, bissett's [he's reviewing a bissett book, along with several others, all from bissett's blewointment press] and the others' poetry sounds like the talk of people who would be the least interested in the written word — ill-educated, arrested adolescents suffering from imaginative fatigue and an OD of imported second-rate American plastic.
		What is so ironic about bissett's Anti-American rhetoric is that he is one of the most American poets that we have in his obsessions and approaches to poetic technique, and with his warmed up left-overs of 60's American counter-culture.
	www.canadianpoetry.ca /cpjrn/vol27/precosky.htm (6254 words)

	Who's
		bissett is a poet, editor, painter and musician.
		bissett conducts writers' workshops at the University of Toronto; in 1985-86 was Writer-in-Residence at the University of Western Ontario, and was a participant in the Writer-in-Libraries programme at Woodstock Public Library (1987/88).
		bissett explores with students the unorthodoxies of his own forms and orthonography, and his use of these expressions as a means of illustrating the very great freedom available to students in creative writing.
	www.poets.ca /linktext/direct/bissett.htm (243 words)

	Colin Browne - bill bissett
		bissett may be the only one who's made of it the jouissance it promised.
		Bissett is saying he's not after identity as ego-gratification, or as tool of correct national will, but as spiritual energy manifesting itself in the light bursting through eternity.
		Watson in his catalogue essay writes much of desire as the driving wheel of these works, and certainly the political bissett is not nearly as evident as the bissett who celebrates polymorphous nibbling, sucking, chewing and cumming into eternity.
	www.ccca.ca /c/writing/b/browne/brow001t.html (1216 words)

	CanEHdian.com: Bill Bissett & The Mandan Massacre
		Bill Bissett was born in Halifax N.S. but moved to B.C. in the early 60's.
		Bill Bissett together with an ensemble of ten musicians committed the “Awake In Th Desert”, a recorded book, to tape.
		Bill Bissett is still popular today and has had numerous collections of poetry published and he currently paints and runs studios in Toronto and Vancouver.
	www.canehdian.com /genre/classicrock/a/billbissett/awake.html (333 words)

	Nightwood Editions - radiant danse uv being
		bissett has been a landmark on the Canadian literary scene since the 1960s, renowned as much for his fascinating life as for his poetics.
		He is best known for his anti-conventional poetry, which makes use of phonetic spelling and visual elements, and for his performances of concrete sound, chanting, and dancing during poetry readings.
		Throughout his life, bissett has attracted a host of admirers—and not just from the counterculture movement.
	www.nightwoodeditions.com /title/RadiantDanseUvBeing (222 words)

	Brian Nation : Beat the Devil: bissett
		In the last few years about a half-dozen or so of my photos of jazz musicians have shown up on CD's but this was the first appearance of my photos on an LP cover.
		Bill and Martina are in there, too, and everybody else's name I've long since forgotten.
		Bill lives in Toronto and Vancouver and when in Vancouver is two blocks away and we often meet for fries at the beach, samosas from the Indian joint, coffee at Blenz, or visits at either his place or mine.
	boppin.com /2005/08/bissett.html (682 words)

	ABCBookWorld
		The latter was bissett's partner for much of the 1960s, from 1961 to 1967, and became the mother of their daughter, Oolijah, born in 1962.
		While the TISH poetry movement was forming at UBC, bissett, according to his Talonbooks publisher Karl Siegler, was "universally recognized as one of the grooviest, stonedest, weird freaks--one of the great Olympians of the Kitsilano hippie scene." From 1963 to 1965, bissett also attended the University of British Columbia where he met professor Warren Tallman.
		The defence of bissett and Talonbooks was a galvanizing factor in the emergence of the literary culture in British Columbia.
	www.abcbookworld.com /?state=view_author&author_id=112 (6884 words)

	Amazon.ca: Th influenza uv logik: Books: Bill Bissett (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		bill bissett is well-known as this country's most successful linguistic innovator (morphologically speaking).
		In so-called postmodern terms, bissett most acutely and obviously echoes the British poet and painter David Jones, best-known as the author of The Anathemata.
		bissett puts his own inimitable spin on the increasingly important issue-perhaps the only issue-facing desensitized, demoralized, and technologized occupants of this global village:
	www.amazon.ca /Th-influenza-logik-Bill-Bissett/dp/0889223572 (403 words)

	www.myspace.com/bissettdako
		Bissett happened to be on the bill, doing a solo set.
		Pete was amazed...one of bissetts so-called "poems" was a word-for-word cribbing of a "song" Pete had already written!
		bill bissett and pete dako has 37 friends.
	www.myspace.com /bissettdako (1307 words)

	The beat goes on
		Their sense of life and art and poetry will change." Bissett is a Canadian writer and performer whose endeavours show traces of the beat sensibility.
		While many artists are wary of the mainstream brain drain, the sapping of intellectual substance that all too often accompanies repackaging for the hoi polloi, bissett sees this commodification as both artistically and financially beneficial.
		bill bissett will be signing copies of his latest book, th influenza uv logik on Thursday, Sept. 4, 1pm at Chapters.
	www.montrealmirror.com /ARCHIVES/1997/082897/books1.html (545 words)

	Young Poets
		bill bissett, Canada’s most prolific poet (he has produced over 60 books!), is a poet, painter, and musician with the band Luddites.
		Ricou states, "the effect is at once holistic–as the incantation empties the sound of meaning and induces an entranced suspension of left-hemisphere activity–and meaningful, as different shades of volume and intonation explore the possible meanings layered in a single word" (44).
		bill bissett has been at the center of controversy most of his poetic life.
	www.youngpoets.ca /history/history15.php (2878 words)

	Bill Bissett - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		bill bissett (born November 23, 1939) is a Canadian poet famous for his anti-conventional style.
		His work typically ranges from the mystical to the mundane, incorporating humor, a sense of wonder and sentimentality, and political commentary.
		radiant danse uv being: A Poetic Portrait of bill bissett.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bill_Bissett (456 words)

	West Coast Scene
		In 1963, [http://canlit.st-john.umanitoba.ca/Canlitx/bill_bissett.html] bill bissett and Martina Clinton launched blew ointment magazine which was dedicated to visual and concrete poetry.
		In 1967, after publishing his diffuse experimental poetry magazine for four years, bill bissett published his first book.
		bissett, like other small press publishers during the period, was publishing the work of American and European counterparts.
	www.collectionscanada.ca /2/17/h17-206-e.html (677 words)

	BookThug Inspired by bissett :: tyeebooks.ca
		Like bill bissett (yes, the b's are lower case) 30 years before him, Jay MillAr (yes, he spells it with a capital A) does things his own way.
		Edmonton-born and now living with his wife and two sons in Toronto, MillAr was inspired to start BookThug after attending a reading by bill bissett in 1992, where he was "both enthralled and frightened" by the poet's performance.
		I remember standing, totally perplexed in a bill bissett audience on the main floor of the buchanan building at ubc in about l965, which would have made me 20 years old--and trying to figure out what the hell is going on with this guy.
	thetyee.ca /Books/2006/09/08/MillAr (1605 words)

	bill bissett- Vancouver International Writers Festival (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		bill bissett has published more than 60 books of poetry, and has been at the cutting edge of poetics and performance for over 40 years.
		In 1964, he founded blewointment press, which published pioneering works by experimental poets.
		While bissett’s published work extends the boundaries of language and visual image in the medium of concrete poetry, his unforgettable readings incorporate sound poetry, chanting and singing.
	www.writersfest.bc.ca /2005festival/author.php?author=4 (76 words)

	Bill Bissett Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Bill Bissett (whose name is often not capitalised) (born November 23, 1939) is a Canadian poet famous for his anti-conventional style.
		He attended Dalhousie University (1956) and University of British Columbia (1963-1965), but dropped out of both due to idealism about freedom of artistic expression.
		He moved to Vancouver, British Columbia in 1958, and started the blew ointment magazine in 1963, later launching blewointment press, which has published volumes by B. Nichol, Steve McCaffery, Andrew Suknaski, Lionel Kearns and D. Levy.
	www.biographybase.com /biography/Bissett_Bill.html (375 words)

	HNN MARSHALL UNIVERSITY NEWS - HuntingtonNews.Net
		"Bill brings a strong combination of public service and private sector experience to this position," Marshall University Interim President Michael J. Farrell said.
		Bissett assumed his duties on June 6, 2005.
		Bissett graduated with his undergraduate and masters degrees from Marshall University.
	www.huntingtonnews.net /marshall/050615-staff-bissett-director.html (187 words)

	Incline -- Journalism from the Mountaintop (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		ike bill bissett (yes, the b's are lower case) 30 years before him, Jay MillAr (yes, he spells it with a capital A) does things his own way.
		to start BookThug after attending a reading by bill bissett in 1992, where he was "both enthralled and frightened" by the poet's performance.
		Two adjectives often connected to bill bissett and his endeavours -- hopeful and idealistic -- are also routinely applied to MillAr.
	www.mala.bc.ca /incline/millar.html (1291 words)

	\|\|\| Granary Books :: lunaria by bill bissett
		From the pages of bill bissett's Lunaria come moments filled with searching and illumination.
		Sights and experiences from "les moon rayze" to "happeeness in ths short life" are woven into expressive drawings and explorations of language.
		Printed letterpress then handpainted and signed by bill bissett.
	www.granarybooks.com /books/lunaria/lunaria1.html (63 words)

	bill bissett book bash - ironworks may 18 - Vancouver Jazz Forum
		bill bissett book bash - ironworks may 18 - Vancouver Jazz Forum
		bill bissett book bash - ironworks may 18
		not a jazz event but several people will be there who have heard jazz and the jazz festival vibe still hangs in the air and bill bissett's name has come up in this forum once or twice
	www.vancouverjazz.com /forums/showthread.php?t=1628 (111 words)

	University of Manitoba: Canadian Literature Archive - Biographies - bill bissett (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Canadian Concrete poet bill bissett can fairly be described as a radical seeker of alternatives to literary conventions.
		His work translates well into the electronic medium and a CD-ROM containing some of his work was produced in 1993.
		To see a student's production of the work of bill bissett in electronic format, press here (currently under construction).
	www.umanitoba.ca /canlit/biographies/bill_bissett.shtml (68 words)

	The Calgary Blow-Out: bill bissett tribute!
		bill bissett is one of Canada’s most prolific and influential poets, painters and musicians.
		The week of November 13-17, bissett will present his work in schools and traverse the city with a film crew in tow, meeting people, sharing his poetry and speaking about his luminous career.
		Ten influential and prominent poets from across North America will gather to read poems about bissett, accompanied by a live band and a historical multimedia presentation of his paintings, photos, music and videos.
	calgaryblowout.blogspot.com /2006/11/bill-bissett-tribute.html (265 words)

	ABCBookWorld
		BISSETT: Well, we understood it all and fortunately we had a really great lawyer, Sid Simons.
		BISSETT: Yeah, they didn't know what destruction we might do.
		bissett: Well, it's possible that my ecstasy is different from their ecstasy, and they don't accept that.
	www.abcbookworld.com /?state=view_author&author_id=112 (6884 words)

	writing in canada: authors: bill bissett
		Jack David, "Visual Poetry in Canada: Birney, bissett, and bp," Studies in Canadian Literature, 2 (1977):252-66
		Steve McCaffery, "Bill Bissett: A Writing Outside Writing," North of Intention: Critical Writings 19973-1986 (1986)
		listen to bill reading a few of his poems online.
	www.track0.com /ogwc/authors/bissett_b.html (153 words)

	Marshall University News/Press Release
		Bissett named director of public relations at Marshall University’s South Charleston campus
		– As part of Marshall University’s ongoing communications effort, Bill Bissett has been selected to serve as Director of Public Relations at Marshall’s South Charleston campus.
		He can be contacted at (304) 746-2038 or by e-mail at
	www.marshall.edu /www/pressrelease.asp?ID=479 (242 words)

	Bill Bissett Music CDs or Listen to Bill Bissett Free
		Bill Bissett Music CDs or Listen to Bill Bissett Free
		Music CDs > Interview Artists > Bill Bissett
		How do I organize and burn Bill Bissett music?
	www.chooseyouritem.com /music/Interview/Bill_Bissett/CD_List.html (84 words)

	Album Awake in th Red Desert by Bill Bissett - AOL Music
		Album Awake in th Red Desert by Bill Bissett - AOL Music
		Songs & Samples: Awake in th Red Desert
		Everything about the album 'Awake in th Red Desert' by Bill Bissett including album title, track listings, release dates, guest artists, record label info and user reviews on AOL Music.
	music.aol.com /artist/bill-bissett/476901/album/.../527284 (149 words)

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