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Bill bissett and Milton Acorn are two of Canada's most significant,
and most controversial, literary figures. In the 1960s, bissett's
renown as an experimental poet was growing as his social and
political concerns were stirred by the voice of the counterculture.
Acorn, inspired by socialist theory and imagism, was building his
reputation as a poet on the margin who ran against the grain of the
literary establishment. Both were rising towards cultural
prominence-one, a true beatnik and the other, a certifiably rugged
lyric poet. In 1965 they came together in a remarkable
collaboration, a challenge to the established literary tradition
and a call for a better world.Published for the very first time, I
Want to Tell You Love is the combination of bissett and Acorn's
seemingly incongruous poetics to confront the turbulent and swiftly
changing world of the 1960s. A collection of poems and
illustrations, it is a window into the lives and motivations of two
soon-to-be-canonized cultural figures. I Want to Tell You Love is a
work of friendship, a shared vision of resistance, and a mutual
longing for a better world. This critical edition offers the
manuscript in its intended form alongside contextualizing
scholarship in a significant contribution to literary history. I
Want to Tell You Love offers an opportunity to reevaluate the
nature and scope of Canadian poetry during a critical time of
national cultural awakening.
Poetry. Art. Originally published in 1970 as a mimeo production by
bill bissett's seminal blewointment press (the same year that
Michael Ondaatje issued his documentary on Nichol titled The Sons
of Captain Poetry), smatterings of THE CAPTAIN POETRY POEMS
COMPLETE have appeared over the years but never in their entirety.
Now, in "official book form" for the first time, along with
corrections to the texts and the material that wasn't included in
the original edition, and "some words on all these words" by Nichol
himself THE CAPTAIN POETRY POEMS COMPLETE is available at last to
scholars, poets, and other human beings alike. With an afterword by
bill bissett.
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