SOURCE: "The Young Poets and the Little Presses," in The Dalhousie Review, Vol. 50, No. 1, Spring, 1970, pp. 112-16.

Barbour is a Canadian author and educator. In the following excerpt, he favorably reviews OF TH LAND DIVINE SERVICE and lebanon voices.

Nelson Ball has … published two recent volumes by Bill Bissett, a true West Coast hippie poet, if such a being exists. Bissett breaks all the rules and does not care. When he fails, which is often, there is nothing to say. But his successes are always worth while, and often very powerful. Bissett has been experimenting for a long time in what he, and a number of other young poets call the "borderblur" area of literature. Of th [sic] Land Divine Service contains some results of one area of that experimentation: chants, meant to be heard, rather than read on the page. Nevertheless, Ball has performed a real service...