griddle talk: a yeer uv bill n carol dewing brunch [Paperback]

For 52 weeks, bill bissett and Carol Malyon met for brunch and conversation at the Golden Griddle in Toronto.<br /><br />This sustained conversational encounter between Carol Malyon, who writes within the objective bounds of standard English usage, and bill bissett, one of contemporary writing's most exotic practitioners, working with the visual forms of language in his own non-hierarchic, phonetic orthography, produces, as if by accident, invariably astonishing social, moral and ethical critical insights. Each of these writers' particular uses of language-the most radically different in contemporary literature-consistently foregrounds and interrogates the cultural origins of "common" perceptions that too often remain hidden and undiscovered in the dictionaries we search for "common" meaning: proof positive that each person's perception of life's most fundamental questions and answers is almost never shared, and is always and only ever subject to translation, even among those who "share" the same language.<br /><br />Here is what they talked about:<br /><br />Trouble and the Self<br /><br />What is Forever<br /><br />Does Belonging Exist<br /><br />Luck and Life<br /><br />We Need Not Hold Our Experiences Against Life<br /><br />Is There a Script<br /><br />The Role of Mysteries in People's Lives<br /><br />Time<br /><br />Free Will and Wider Wiring<br /><br />Families<br /><br />God &/or the Loved One and Individual Freedom<br /><br />Mortality and the Jigsaw Puzzle of Replicating a Parent in a Lover<br /><br />Why "Shoulds" are No Good<br /><br />Delusional Relationships<br /><br />The Chemistry Metaphor<br /><br />Censorship and Propaganda<br /><br />True Love<br /><br />Fact or Fiction-Where's the Line<br /><br />Do We Invent Everything We Go Through<br /><br />Is Rationality a Costume<br /><br />Can We Influence Larger Book Sales<br /><br />Maybe We All Want to Move to Sweden<br /><br />Just for Today I'm Confused About Religion<br /><br />Tax Reform<br /><br />Predictability<br /><br />Stage Fright<br /><br />Carol, What Is It<br /><br />Them<br /><br />Know Thyself and the Writer's Delusions<br /><br />Wondering What about the Stars and Our Friends<br /><br />Childhood Versus Later On<br /><br />Real Life-Does it Really Exist<br /><br />All Those Prayers-Where are They Going, Exactly<br /><br />Meaninglessness<br /><br />Time and Relativity<br /><br />Each Day We Wake Up and Realize They've Given Us Another Day<br /><br />Everything is Answered<br /><br />The Questions in Our Lives-the Balance, and What's Peripheral<br /><br />Dogs Give Unconditional Love, Why Can't People

Carol Malyon<br />Carol Malyon is the author of four novels, a collection of short fiction and several books of poetry. Her first short story collection, The Edge of the World (1991) was short-listed for the Commonwealth Writer's Prize for Best First Book of Fiction, and her novel If I Knew I'd Tell You (1995) was short-listed for the SmithBooks / Books in Canada First Novel Award.<br /><br />bill bissett<br />bill bissett's charged readings, which never fail to amaze his audiences, incorporate sound poetry, chanting and singing, the verve of which is only matched by his prolific writing career-over 70 books of bissett's poetry have been published. Whether paying tribute to his hometown lunaria or exercising his native tongue dissent, bissett continues to dance upon the cutting edge of poetics and performance works.