Warren Tallman
History
Born in Seattle, Tallman was raised in Tumwater, Washington. He attended the University of California, Berkeley on the G.I. Bill, writing dissertations on Henry James and Joseph Conrad. There he met Ellen King; they married in 1951.
In 1956, Tallman and his wife accepted teaching jobs in the English department at the University of British Columbia, helped Earle Birney and Roy Daniells to organize the creative writing department. In 1963, they hosted a poetry conference attended by Denise Levertov, Charles Olson, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Duncan, Margaret Avison, Robert Creeley, and Philip Whalen.[http://www.slought.org/toc/Vancouver1963/ Description of the Vancouver 1963 Poetry Conference] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090926004510/http://www.slought.org/toc/Vancouver1963/ |date=2009-09-26 }}; www.slought.org The Tallman home itself also served as a poetry enclave of sorts. It was in the Tallman home that Jack Spicer gave some of his lectures.See Peter Gizzi Two years later, they held another poetry conference in Berkeley, California.
Tallman was sometimes criticized for turning the Vancouver poetry circle into a California branch plant. Tallman embraced the Black Mountain school approach to poetry, but also showed the influence of the Beats, the New American Poets and the Language Poets. Among the Canadian poets he is said to have influenced are George Bowering, Lionel Kearns, Frank Davey, Jamie Reid, Fred Wah, bill bissett, Stan Persky and Howard White.
Selected bibliography
- The Poetics of the New American Poetry New York: Grove, 1973. {{ISBN|0-394-17801-7}} (edited with Donald Allen)
- Godawful Streets of Man Toronto: Coach House, 1978.
- In the Midst Vancouver: Talonbooks, 1992.
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References
- [http://www.abcbookworld.com/?state=view_author&author_id=59 Author Bank: Warren Tallman] at BC BookWorld
External links
- [http://atom.archives.sfu.ca/index.php/msa-1-0-1-3-0-301 Records of Warren Tallman are held by Simon Fraser University's Special Collections and Rare Books]
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