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

Among the Canadian poets he is said to have influenced are bill bissett, Stan Persky and Howard White.

* bill bissett archive held at the Clara Thomas Archives & Special Collections at York University, Toronto

), a poetic tribute to bissett with contributions from more than 80 writers, including Margaret Atwood, Leonard Cohen, Lorna Crozier, Patrick Lane, Steve McCaffery, P. K. Page and Darren Wershler-Henry.

" Composition by feeled the visual art of bill bissett.

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He founded Ganglia Press in 1965 with David Aylward and grOnk ( magazine ) in 1967 with bill bissett and David UU ( David W. Harris ).

Lane, bill bissett and Seymour Mayne founded the small-press publisher Very Stone House in 1966.

In addition, the show also increased the profile of underground and experimental writers and artists and filmmakers, including Laurie Anderson, Kathy Acker, bill bissett and Todd Solondz.

For the beatnik, like the hipster, is in opposition to a society that is based on the repression of the sex instinct.

The central concern of Erich Auerbach's impressive volume called Mimesis is to describe the shift from a classic theory of imitation ( based upon a recognition of levels of truth ) to a Christian theory of imitation in which the levels are dissolved.

The assumptions upon which the example shown in Figure 3 is based are: ( A ) One man can direct about six subordinates if the subordinates are chosen carefully so that they do not need too much personal coaching, indoctrinating, etc..

`` History has this in common with every other science: that the historian is not allowed to claim any single piece of knowledge, except where he can justify his claim by exhibiting to himself in the first place, and secondly to any one else who is both able and willing to follow his demonstration, the grounds upon which it is based.

Like ours, the economy of the space merchants must constantly expand in order to survive, and, like ours, it is based on the principle of `` ever increasing everybody's work and profits in the circle of consumption ''.

The American Medical Association is once again grinding out its tear-soaked propaganda based upon the high cost of the Veterans Administration medical program to the American taxpayer.

-- Your July 26 editorial regarding the position of Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy on prospective tax relief for DuPont stockholders is based on an erroneous statement of fact.

As is the case with the allotment provisions for support of vocational rehabilitation services, the matching requirements are also based on a statutory formula.

The shelter illustrated in figure 12 is based on such a room built in a new home in the Washington, D.C. area in the Spring of 1959.

The rules and policies to be applied in this process of course must be based on objectives which represent what is to be desired if radio service is to be of maximum use to the Nation.

This program is based on the policy of designing and building efficient machines which will help produce better textile values -- fabrics whose cost in relation to quality, fashion and utility provide the consumer with better textile products for the money.

But because science is based on mathematics doesn't mean that a hot rodder must necessarily be a mathematician.

and perhaps of even greater significance -- his music is strong 20th-Century evidence of the effectiveness of Evolution, based on a broad Traditionalism for the creative art of music.

Promotion is too often based on longevity and time in salary grade instead of merit.

The experimental arrangement as described below is based on the geometry of free burning arcs.

With detectors sensitive to three mass intervals and based on a few counts, the second and third Russian space probes indicate that the flux of the smallest particles detected is less than that of larger ones.

Oliver's 37-1/2 feet is partly based on this report and can be accepted as probable.

the former figure is based on a somewhat unusual birth of four by a Central American female ( see chapter on Laying, Brooding, Hatching, and Birth ), the latter on a `` normal '' newly born individual.

Although the standard deviation values on which spread of the lines is based are relatively larger for those centers which begin to ossify early ( Table 1 ), there are considerable differences in this value between centers having the closely timed Onsets.

The following summary, based on Figures 5 and 6, is an example of one way of interpreting the 42 figures constructed from onset ages and completion ages of individual children with respect to the appropriate mean age for each growth center.

These differences in turn result from the fact that my Yokuts vocabularies were built up of terms selected mainly to insure unambiguity of English meaning between illiterate informants and myself, within a compact and uniform territorial area, but that Hoijer's vocabulary is based on Swadesh's second glottochronological list which aims at eliminating all items which might be culturally or geographically determined.

It is also the hometown of guitarist Mark Parry of Vancouver rock band The Manvils.

The largest city is Vancouver, the third-largest metropolitan area in Canada, the largest in Western Canada, and the second largest in the Pacific Northwest.

British Columbia's capital is Victoria, located at the southeastern tip of Vancouver Island.

The province's most populous city is Vancouver, which is not on Vancouver Island but rather is located in the southwest corner of the mainland ( an area often called the Lower Mainland ).

The Okanagan area is one of several wine-growing regions in Canada and also produces ciders ; other wine regions in British Columbia include the Cowichan Valley on Vancouver Island, and the Fraser Valley.

Much of the western part of Vancouver Island and the rest of the coast is covered by temperate rainforest.

One of the best examples of a local currency is the original LETS currency, founded on Vancouver Island in the early 1980 ’ s.

Cable television in Canada began in 1952 with community antenna connections in Vancouver and London, Ontario ; which city is first is not clear.

The Sundance Film Festival, Tribeca Film Festival, Austin Film Festival, New York Film Festival, Montreal World Film Festival and Gimli Film Festival are also major festivals in North America, as is the Vancouver International Film Festival, the fifth largest film festival in North America.

It is the present day main harbour area of the City of Vancouver beyond Stanley Park.

While it is difficult to comprehend how Vancouver missed the Fraser River, much of this river's delta was subject to flooding and summer freshet which prevented the captain from spotting any of its great channels as he sailed the entire shoreline from Point Roberts, Washington to Point Grey in 1792.

* 1958 – The wooden roller coaster at Playland, which is in the Pacific National Exhibition, Vancouver, British Colombia, Canada opens.

* Luxembourg is represented in Canada through its embassy in Washington, D. C. ( USA ), and 4 honorary consulates ( in Calgary, Montreal, Toronto, and Vancouver ).

The Lower Mainland is a name commonly applied to the region surrounding and including Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

The Greater Vancouver Regional District ( GVRD ) is made up of 21 municipalities.

Many other peoples of the Georgia Strait region also frequented the lower Fraser, including those from Vancouver Island and what is now Whatcom County, Washington.

Bertram is a licensed high school teacher ; in addition, she also teaches young actors at Biz Studio in Vancouver.

Located in the Mount Baker Wilderness, it is visible from much of Greater Victoria, Greater Vancouver, and, to the south, from Seattle ( and on clear days Tacoma ) in Washington.

The list of divergent words becomes longer if considering regional Canadian dialects, especially as spoken in the Atlantic provinces ( gasoline is still called petrol in Newfoundland ) and parts of Vancouver Island where significant pockets of British culture still remain.