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Bert Almon is a professor of English at the University of Alberta and
the author of Calling Texas and Earth Prime.

In this collection, bill bissett presents his usual romantic/hippie
philosophy: society is corrupt, and human beings must liberate
themselves through sexual freedom and commitment to the imagination.
This familiar set of ideas is presented in long, loosely organized poems
made nearly unreadable by their relentless pseudophonetic spellings and
free-associational style. Occasionally, bissett provides some visual
poetry (e.g., “typewriter games”); these efforts are amusing.
Calling Bloor Street “Blur Street” also shows also some wit, but
bissett’s social comment never rises above puns and counterculture
platitudes.