Can I read Northern Wild Roses on EtoBox?

Northern Wild Roses by Bissett, Bill, 1939- is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Northern Wild Roses about?

<p>A pioneer of sound, visual and performance poetry-eschewing the artificial hierarchies of meaning and the privileging of things ('proper' nouns) over actions imposed on language by capital letters; the metric limitations imposed on the possibilities of expression by punctuation; and the illusion of formal transparency imposed on the written word by standard (rather than phonetic) spelling-bissett composes his poems as scripts for pure performance.</p><p>His primal rejection of all the limiting conventions of written language has allowed him to both maintain and foreground the appearance of any linguistic event as a living performance rather than backgrounding it(s breath [spirit]) as a 'dead letter' in all of his work.</p><p>Here, bissett reminds us (based on the latest neurological research) that:</p><p>langwage centrs ar all ovr th brain</p><p>northern wild roses dansing can stall deth postal parts uv speech arts uv each sylabul a liter sentens thn thot wud happn</p>

Author

Bissett, Bill, 1939-

Publisher

Vancouver: Talon Books

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9780889225329

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Poetry, Humanities