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Textual vishyuns : image and text in the work of Bill Bissett / Carl Peters.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780889226616
- ISBN: 088922661X
- Physical Description: 224 p. : ill. (some col.), ports. ; 23 cm.
- Publisher: Vancouver, B.C. : Talonbooks, 2011.
Content descriptions
- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references: p. [213]-224.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. Junk/Art/Oracle: Composition as Assemblage -- 2. From Point to Plane: Surface and the Discontinuous Line Drawing -- 3. What Th Painting Sees: Molecular Dissolve And The Adamization Of Language: The Word Offering Through Painting -- 4. Stardust, Poetry and Cinema -- 5. Living With Th Vishyun / Sound Bites: An Interview With Bill Bissett.
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- 1 of 1 copy available at College of the Rockies.
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- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Circulation Modifier | Holdable? | Status | Due Date | Courses |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cranbrook Campus | PR 9199.3 .B45 Z84 2011 (Text) | 31111000152346 | CRANBROOK | Volume hold | Available | - |
Carl Peters
Carl Peters wrote his master's thesis on bp Nichol and the Kabbalah and his doctoral thesis on Nichol and the practice of the sacred. His critical study of bill bissett was published by Talonbooks in the spring of 2011. Dr. Peters teaches poetics and avant-garde art at the University of the Fraser Valley.
bill bissett
originalee from lunaria ovr 300 yeers ago in lunarian time
sent by shuttul thru halifax nova scotia originalee wantid 2
b dansr n figur skatr became a poet n paintr in my longings
after 12 operaysyuns reelee preventid me from following th
inishul direksyuns
âbill bissett
bill bissett garnered international attention in the 1960s as a pre-eminent figure of the counterculture movement in Canada and the United Kingdom. In 1964, he founded blewointment press, which published the works of bpNichol and Steve McCaffery, among others.
bissettâs charged readings, which never fail to amaze his audiences, incorporate sound poetry, chanting and singing, the verve of which is only matched by his prolific writing careerâmore than seventy books of bissettâs poetry have been published.
A pioneer of sound, visual and performance poetryâeschewing the artificial hierarchies of meaning and the privileging of things (âproperâ nouns) over actions imposed on language by capital letters; the metric limitations imposed on the possibilities of expression by punctuation; and the illusion of formal transparency imposed on the written word by standard (rather than phonetic) spellingâbissett composes his poems as scripts for pure performance and has consistently worked to extend the boundaries of language and visual image, honing a synthesis of the two in the medium of concrete poetry.
Whether paying tribute to his hometown lunaria or exercising his native tongue dissent, bissett continues to dance upon upon the cutting edge of poetics and performance works.
bill bissett was recently a featured poet on the Heart of a Poet series, produced in conjunction with Bravo! TV.
Among bissettâs many awards are The George Woodcock Lifetime Achievement Award (2007); BC Book Prizes Dorothy Livesay Prize (2003) peter among th towring boxes / text bites; BC Book Prizes Dorothy Livesay Prize (1993) inkorrect thots.