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9780889229808 | Talonbooks Ltd, April 19, 2016, cover price $19.95

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Product Description: Written in his unique phonetic language, bill bissett's second novel-poem, hungree throat, recounts the relationship of two men—one bold and unafraid, the other burdened by terrible memories and unable to trust. We witness ten years of a shared life marked by hunger "4 breething being singing eeting digesting speeking saying food kissing watr love...read more

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9780889227453 | Talonbooks Ltd, May 14, 2013, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Written in his unique phonetic language, bill bissett's second novel-poem, hungree throat, recounts the relationship of two men—one bold and unafraid, the other burdened by terrible memories and unable to trust.

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Product Description: Poetry. The publication of bill bissett's RUSH: WHAT FUCKAN THEORY; A STUDY UV LANGUAGE in 1972 firmly ushered Canadian poetics into the postmodern era. Out of print for 40 years—and reissued here complete with an interview with bissett about the book's creation and a critical afterword by derek beaulieu and Gregory Betts—RUSH embodies a collagist, multi-conscious approach to art that recognizes no division between the work and the world, the author and his sexuality, his breath, his influences; the theory and the practice...read more
By Derek Beaulieu (editor), Gregory Betts (editor) and Bill Bissett

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9781927040416 | Reissue edition (Bookthug, October 21, 2012), cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Poetry.

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Product Description: Famous and celebrated since the 1960s for pushing the boundaries of language and representation in the creation of image as a site of both content and context, the world’s leading sound, visual, concrete and performance poet, bill bissett, describes this book as “a novel with connekting pomes n essays...read more

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9780889226715 | Talonbooks Ltd, December 6, 2011, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Famous and celebrated since the 1960s for pushing the boundaries of language and representation in the creation of image as a site of both content and context, the world’s leading sound, visual, concrete and performance poet, bill bissett, describes this book as “a novel with connekting pomes n essays.

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Product Description: For 52 weeks, bill bissett and Carol Malyon met for brunch and conversation at the Golden Griddle in Toronto.This sustained conversational encounter between Carol Malyon, who writes within the objective bounds of standard English usage, and bill bissett, one of contemporary writing’s most exotic practitioners, working with the visual forms of language in his own non-hierarchic, phonetic orthography, produces, as if by accident, invariably astonishing social, moral and ethical critical insights...read more

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9780889226067 | 1 edition (Talonbooks Ltd, April 30, 2009), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: For 52 weeks, bill bissett and Carol Malyon met for brunch and conversation at the Golden Griddle in Toronto.

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9780889225893 | Talonbooks Ltd, September 1, 2008, cover price $18.95

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By Bill Bissett (other contributor) and B. P. Nichol

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9781897388600 | 4th edition (Bookthug, May 9, 2006), cover price $15.00

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Product Description: Never happy to rest on his laurels, bill bissett again delivers a unique and challenging foray into sound poetry. With his most recent work, bill teams up with musician and fellow adventurer, Bill Roberts. rumors uv hurricane will transport listeners from swirling chaos and proceed to drop them suddenly into an eerie calm...read more

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9780889952768 | Abridged edition (Red Deer Pr, October 1, 2003), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Never happy to rest on his laurels, bill bissett again delivers a unique and challenging foray into sound poetry.

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9781894800143 | Ekstasis Editions, September 1, 2002, cover price $8.95

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Product Description: bissett’s latest book marks some significant boundaries, draws some sharp, clear lines for this veteran of the evolving phonetic alphabet, and of sound, concrete and performance poetry. While the work remains overwhelmingly playful, subtly layered, and full of the astonishment and sheer delight at seeing and hearing things one has never quite thought of the way the poet/performer imagines them before, there is a new edginess to this work that will shake up both old fans and new readers of what can only be called the unique bill bissett experience in language...read more

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9780889224643 | Talonbooks Ltd, February 1, 2002, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: bissett’s latest book marks some significant boundaries, draws some sharp, clear lines for this veteran of the evolving phonetic alphabet, and of sound, concrete and performance poetry.

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Product Description: rainbow mewsik brings you the sometimes harmonious, sometimes jarring words, vocalizations, and music of world-renowned sound poet bill bissett. This is poetry that bends your ear, that makes you stand up and take note. Through a rich and provocative mix of maracas, verse, meditations, chants, saxophones and other instruments, rainbow mewsik is fresh, in-your-face performance literature that constantly plays with how we create rainbows of meaning via everything to do with sound...read more

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9780889952317 | Red Deer Pr, May 1, 2001, cover price $4.95 | About this edition: rainbow mewsik brings you the sometimes harmonious, sometimes jarring words, vocalizations, and music of world-renowned sound poet bill bissett.

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Product Description: Ten "translationed" fragments from bill bissett’s new book:1. Another near-life experience.2. “'Help, help,'" such a classical utterance…3. Can we connect? Is there time for that?4. Obsession is a replacement for interaction.5...read more

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9780889224339 | Talonbooks Ltd, September 1, 2000, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Ten "translationed" fragments from bill bissett’s new book:1.

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Product Description: scars on th seehors is bill bissett’s latest report from and to the image nation, in which his metric performs a kind of absence of narrative intent that lets everyone and everything speak for itself:eye dont have 2 invent th world ium / alredee in itThere is much evidence of wounding here, of things gone completely raging:whats th mattr / why yuv hardlee touched yr dinnr / at all / n its yr favorit saus / is it th tektonic platesbut also a hope of healing, of patching up, of scarring:i see th salmon talks will / resume on monday / well thank god at leest th / salmon ar talkingalong with, of course, the usual ““difficult choices”“:it usd 2 be / (4 konrad white n ken / thomsod) / yu cud get sum toilet papr / nd a newspapr both 4 / a dollr fiftee / now yu cant yu gotta / make a choisDefinitely not Conrad Black’s National Post...read more

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9780889223875 | Talonbooks Ltd, October 1, 1999, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: scars on th seehors is bill bissett’s latest report from and to the image nation, in which his metric performs a kind of absence of narrative intent that lets everyone and everything speak for itself:eye dont have 2 invent th world ium / alredee in itThere is much evidence of wounding here, of things gone completely raging:whats th mattr / why yuv hardlee touched yr dinnr / at all / n its yr favorit saus / is it th tektonic platesbut also a hope of healing, of patching up, of scarring:i see th salmon talks will / resume on monday / well thank god at leest th / salmon ar talkingalong with, of course, the usual ““difficult choices”“:it usd 2 be / (4 konrad white n ken / thomsod) / yu cud get sum toilet papr / nd a newspapr both 4 / a dollr fiftee / now yu cant yu gotta / make a choisDefinitely not Conrad Black’s National Post.

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Product Description: accepting th radiant dances uv being4 kleerances uv ko dependenseez n helpth selvs being plural storeez soundvizual politikul non narrativ fuseynlinguisteek mewsik letting go uv thrashyunalizasyuns irrashyunalizaysyunsblaming games they made me putting thfocus on wuns selvs irridescent tinkshurssimultaneous shiftings th langwages 4aims chill n th needs 4 health edukaysyun sochul programs n civil human ritesguaranteez 2 lift us n loving th reeleenameless being within each diffrent nsame prson th lines defining n dissolvingth jade n gold fevr on th edg reseedin th disapeering air mixes n arousth senses th prfume hints n th tallbuildings tottr seegulls encirculingth see fadid turquois wood frame houssew stung by salt spray th soul rocksloving th nameless isnesses withineach prson bein...read more

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9780889223721 | Talonbooks Ltd, October 1, 1997, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: accepting th radiant dances uv being4 kleerances uv ko dependenseez n helpth selvs being plural storeez soundvizual politikul non narrativ fuseynlinguisteek mewsik letting go uv thrashyunalizasyuns irrashyunalizaysyunsblaming games they made me putting thfocus on wuns selvs irridescent tinkshurssimultaneous shiftings th langwages 4aims chill n th needs 4 health edukaysyun sochul programs n civil human ritesguaranteez 2 lift us n loving th reeleenameless being within each diffrent nsame prson th lines defining n dissolvingth jade n gold fevr on th edg reseedin th disapeering air mixes n arousth senses th prfume hints n th tallbuildings tottr seegulls encirculingth see fadid turquois wood frame houssew stung by salt spray th soul rocksloving th nameless isnesses withineach prson being

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Product Description: What is logic? Isn’t it a sickness we create? Useful for certain things, but not paramount in helping us be & share & change. Angels are rising in spirit places, helping us through & set against a back-drop of deaths, tortures, imprisonments, AIDS, big religious right-wing power control grabs, unroyal families, increasing poverty & the growing under class...read more

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9780889223578 | Talonbooks Ltd, March 1, 1996, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: What is logic?

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Product Description: WARNING each wun uv thees pomes may contain inkorrect thots these pomes have not bin kleerd by th ministree uv korrect thotsThs book contains reel storees that have reelee happend th mysteree uv pain has not bin adequatelee xplaind 2 us why memorees can cum crashing down on us robbing us uv our present or why we lifting grasp hold of a suddn laffing idea baloons us up n what we lern from memoreesI cum skraping across a glacier bringing yu ths burnd flowr see its petals bleed as it opns all ovr our plans our mesurd safetees see its tabula filling with such wondrous snowthese pomes have not bin bleerd by th ministree uv korrect thots we have no control ovr what is not being xpressd heer eithrbyond ths sign yr on yr ow...read more

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9780889223035 | Talonbooks Ltd, January 1, 1995, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: WARNING each wun uv thees pomes may contain inkorrect thots these pomes have not bin kleerd by th ministree uv korrect thotsThs book contains reel storees that have reelee happend th mysteree uv pain has not bin adequatelee xplaind 2 us why memorees can cum crashing down on us robbing us uv our present or why we lifting grasp hold of a suddn laffing idea baloons us up n what we lern from memoreesI cum skraping across a glacier bringing yu ths burnd flowr see its petals bleed as it opns all ovr our plans our mesurd safetees see its tabula filling with such wondrous snowthese pomes have not bin bleerd by th ministree uv korrect thots we have no control ovr what is not being xpressd heer eithrbyond ths sign yr on yr own

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Product Description: bissett has remained on a permanent world tour for more than thirty years, writing this book while on a European reading circuit that included performances in London, Manchester, Cardiff, Dublin, Paris, Mainz, Trier and Berlin.

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9780889223226 | Talonbooks Ltd, August 1, 1993, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: bissett has remained on a permanent world tour for more than thirty years, writing this book while on a European reading circuit that included performances in London, Manchester, Cardiff, Dublin, Paris, Mainz, Trier and Berlin.

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Product Description: Book by Bissett, Bill

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9780889222779 | Talonbooks Ltd, December 1, 1990, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Book by Bissett, Bill

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9780889222472 | Talonbooks Ltd, January 1, 1988, cover price $8.95

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9780889222328 | Talonbooks Ltd, December 1, 1985, cover price $7.95

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Product Description: Book by Bissett, Bill

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9780889222076 | Talonbooks Ltd, December 1, 1983, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Book by Bissett, Bill

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Product Description: This volume represents the most definitive and comprehensive selection of bissett’s writing from the 1960s and 1970s, in voices “erotik, politikul, humorous, lyrikul, sound-vizual, narrative, meditative, konkreet, collage, nd song-chants."

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9780889221727 | Talonbooks Ltd, July 1, 1980, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: This volume represents the most definitive and comprehensive selection of bissett’s writing from the 1960s and 1970s, in voices “erotik, politikul, humorous, lyrikul, sound-vizual, narrative, meditative, konkreet, collage, nd song-chants.

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