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This is earth. These are people.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e This tireless quest to find the delight of discovery, wonder and truth in what at first sight seems foreign, mysterious and apparently \"incorrect,\" defines both bissett's latest book and his singular poetic genius. The joy of discovery and recognition in our encounter with the poet's unpunctuated, uncapitalized phonetic spelling and visual presentation offers us a reward in direct proportion to our willingness to engage the work by abandoning all of the baggage of the learned expectations we bring to the act of reading--allowing the words and their new echoes to cross the \"vast linguistic valley\" that is redolent with the imaginative possibility of entrances to others as they actually appear, and not as we expect them to be.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e As always, bissett pushes his linguistic palette here into realms that ideographically lend access to his intellectual discoveries. His introduction of an occasionally determined capital A in the middle of a word or phrase, representing \"a tent on a mountain,\" echoes the profound spirituality of this book, and its suggestion that \"The mind is a kaleidoscope--discouragement--satisfaction--and finding the way again. There are no happy endings. Happy moments, yes. 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Its three-part \"fictional\" story offers a new and engaging understanding of the human condition that is delightfully accessible only through language.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ebill bissett\u003c\/b\u003e's 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 career--more than seventy books of bissett's cutting-edge poetry have been published.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52820332249361,"sku":"NLS9780889226715","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53367522787601,"sku":"NIN9780889226715","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780889226715.jpg?v=1764329748"},{"product_id":"time-book-bill-bissett-9780889226531","title":"time","description":"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, 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\":\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003etime\u003c\/i\u003e 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\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e -- bill bissett","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52820602913041,"sku":"NLS9780889226531","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780889226531.jpg?v=1764330274"},{"product_id":"hungree-throat-book-bill-bissett-9780889227453","title":"hungree throat","description":"\u003cp\u003eWritten in his unique phonetic language, bill bissett's second novel-poem, \u003ci\u003ehungree throat\u003c\/i\u003e, recounts the relationship of two men - one bold and unafraid, the other burdened by terrible memories and unable to trust. 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