Selected Poems: Beyond Even Faithful Legends

by Bill Bissett

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."

160 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1980

About the author

bill bissett (born William Frederick Bissett, November 23, 1939) is a Canadian poet famous for his anti-conventional style.

bissett attended Dalhousie University and the University of British Columbia but dropped out of both universities because of an overriding desire to live as a free agent, writer and painter unencumbered by any academic constraints. He moved to Vancouver, British Columbia in 1958. Five years later he started the blew ointment magazine and later launched blewointment press. bissett is based in Vancouver and Toronto alternating between the two cities.

Reviews

[Gerhard · Rating 5 out of 5]

I was in full bissett register today when I caught myself before sending a WhatsApp: 'I've just pooped you a quick email.' Ecstatic, incantatory, erotic, tender, numinous. Reading bissett, you just want to take drugs and fuck like crazy as if we had time-machined to the 1960s, when the world was scarred, but still so innocent and interconnected.