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| | City Pages - Book Roundup (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30) |
 | | Basically an old hippie from Halifax, Nova Scotia, this poet has struggled fervently for 57 years against a cruel "influenza of logik," which he defines in semi-existential terms as big religion, big money, and the kind of big ego/soul-deadening stuff that is draining the "human" out of humanity. |
 | | His newest collection, th influenza uv logik, is both rant and "raptur," and Bissett's mesmerizing lyrics are most effective when he approximates the narrative grace of the latter. |
 | | In other poems Bissett rants against NAFTA, corporate greed, and "toxik lakes," yet he consistently confounds politics with philosophical and aesthetic rambling ("th rite wing nevr sleeps ther is no always"). |
| www.citypages.com /detail.asp?ArticleID=2655 (1989 words) |
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