Will Dockery
2019-04-25 06:38:36 UTC
Poet of the Month (March 2015): bill bissett
http://pennyspoetry.wikia.com/wiki/Bill_bissett
bill bissett (born William Frederick Bissett, November 23, 1939) is a
Canadian poet famous for his anti-conventional style. He often does not
capitalise his name or use capital letters.
Jack Kerouac named bissett a "great poet" in a 1968 interview in Paris
Review.
http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/4260/the-art-of-fiction-no-41-jack-kerouac
Kerouac: You know who's a great poet? I know who the great poets are.
Interviewer: Who?
Kerouac: Let's see, is it ... William Bissett of Vancouver. An Indian boy.
Bill Bissett, or Bissonnette.
Saroyan: Let's talk about Jack Kerouac.
Kerouac: He's not better than Bill Bissett, but he's very original.
bissett is known for his use of a unique orthography and incorporating
visual elements in his printed poetry, and his performance of "concrete
sound" poetry, sound effects, chanting, barefoot dancing and playing a
maraca during his poetry readings. He is often associated with the
Shamanistic in literature. He has also had large exhibits of his paintings
and made audio recordings on vinyl, cassette tape and CD. He was the
lyricist and vocalist in the Ontario band, Luddites, and before that he
collaborated with experimental rock group The Mandan Massacre. His work
typically ranges from the mystical to the mundane, incorporating humour, a
sense of wonder and sentimentality, and political commentary.
Allmusic: "Bill Bissett can roughly be considered the Canadian equivalent
to
Allen Ginsberg, an oracular poet who found a home among the psychedelic
vanguard of the late '60s with an incantatory live blend of performance
art
and avant-garde rock. Bissett, though, is an even more abstruse scribe who
deconstructs language by stripping away conventional syntactical
considerations. It is willfully difficult but frequently rewarding as a
reading experience because it is such visual work."
* http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/bill-bissett
bill bissett at the Poetry Foundation
* http://www.billbissett.com/html/billthepoet.htm
bill bissett th poet
Nice summary article.http://pennyspoetry.wikia.com/wiki/Bill_bissett
bill bissett (born William Frederick Bissett, November 23, 1939) is a
Canadian poet famous for his anti-conventional style. He often does not
capitalise his name or use capital letters.
Jack Kerouac named bissett a "great poet" in a 1968 interview in Paris
Review.
http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/4260/the-art-of-fiction-no-41-jack-kerouac
Kerouac: You know who's a great poet? I know who the great poets are.
Interviewer: Who?
Kerouac: Let's see, is it ... William Bissett of Vancouver. An Indian boy.
Bill Bissett, or Bissonnette.
Saroyan: Let's talk about Jack Kerouac.
Kerouac: He's not better than Bill Bissett, but he's very original.
bissett is known for his use of a unique orthography and incorporating
visual elements in his printed poetry, and his performance of "concrete
sound" poetry, sound effects, chanting, barefoot dancing and playing a
maraca during his poetry readings. He is often associated with the
Shamanistic in literature. He has also had large exhibits of his paintings
and made audio recordings on vinyl, cassette tape and CD. He was the
lyricist and vocalist in the Ontario band, Luddites, and before that he
collaborated with experimental rock group The Mandan Massacre. His work
typically ranges from the mystical to the mundane, incorporating humour, a
sense of wonder and sentimentality, and political commentary.
Allmusic: "Bill Bissett can roughly be considered the Canadian equivalent
to
Allen Ginsberg, an oracular poet who found a home among the psychedelic
vanguard of the late '60s with an incantatory live blend of performance
art
and avant-garde rock. Bissett, though, is an even more abstruse scribe who
deconstructs language by stripping away conventional syntactical
considerations. It is willfully difficult but frequently rewarding as a
reading experience because it is such visual work."
* http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/bill-bissett
bill bissett at the Poetry Foundation
* http://www.billbissett.com/html/billthepoet.htm
bill bissett th poet
BTW, I moved the "Capitalization Discussion" section of the bissett article,
that you added to bissett's article on PPP, to a the 'comment' section.
(Where it was, it sounded as if the writer had edited the PPP article rather
than the Wikipedia one). I did use it to rewrite the sentence in question as
follows: "He does not capitalize his name or use initial capitalization in
his writing."
I don't capitalize his name there, except for the initial B in the title (on
which the program insists); and as a type of in-joke, I don't use capitals
on the section headings, either.
From a National Poetry Month thread of past times, Bill Bisett is a worthy
addition as "poet of the day" for Thursday...