{"product_id":"i-want-to-tell-you-love-a-critical-edition-9781773852294","title":"I Want to Tell You Love: A Critical Edition","description":"\u003cp\u003ebill 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished for the very first time, \u003cem\u003eI Want to Tell You Love\u003c\/em\u003e 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. \u003cem\u003eI Want to Tell You Love\u003c\/em\u003e is a work of friendship, a shared vision of resistance, and a mutual longing for a better world.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis critical edition offers the manuscript in its intended form alongside contextualizing scholarship in a significant contribution to literary history. \u003cem\u003eI Want to Tell You Love\u003c\/em\u003e offers an opportunity to reevaluate the nature and scope of Canadian poetry during a critical time of national cultural awakening.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMilton Acorn\u003c\/strong\u003e is one of the most recognizable poets of the mid-to-late twentieth century in Canada. During his lifetime, Acorn published numerous poetry books that are distinguished by his skillful ability to fold together the personal and political, including\u003cem\u003e I've Tasted My Blood\u003c\/em\u003e, for which he won the Canadian Poet's Award in 1970 and \u003cem\u003eThe Island Means Minago\u003c\/em\u003e, for which he won the Governor General's Award for Poetry in 1975.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ebill bissett\u003c\/strong\u003e from lunaria was on th first childrns shuttul 2 earth from that trubuld planet th oxygen had all gone most recent book \u003cem\u003eb r e t h \/ th treez uv lunaria\u003c\/em\u003e from talonbooks latest cd with pete dako \u003cem\u003es t a r s\u003c\/em\u003e availabul now on Bandcamp chek out frenz and fans uv bill bissett on fb curatid by bruce parker may we keep n maintain th oxygen heer on earth \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEric Schmaltz\u003c\/strong\u003e is a scholar, poet, editor, and educator. His research has focused on experimental and avant-garde Canadian literatures. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eSurfaces\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChristopher Doody\u003c\/strong\u003e is a scholar whose work has focused on book history and mid-twentieth century authorship in Canada. With Suzanne Bailey, he is the co-editor of the revised edition of P.K. Page's Brazilian Journal.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Calgary Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50929929617682,"sku":"9781773852294","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_b6ff18e5-c591-4765-92af-f5f233fb1093.jpg?v=1739057250","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/i-want-to-tell-you-love-a-critical-edition-9781773852294","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}