Warren Tallman

Warren Tallman ( born November 17, 1921 in Seattle, United States, † 1 July 1994) was a US-born literature professor who influenced the Canadian poetry scene through his theoretical writings and experiments of the mid-20th century as well as the theoretical basis for the underground magazine TISH joint responsibility.

Life

Born in Seattle, Tallman grew up in Turn Water, Washington. He attended the University of California, Berkeley after the end of World War II, in which he had served, on the basis of the Servicemen 's Readjustment Act, and wrote his dissertation on Henry James and Joseph Conrad. In California, he also met his future wife, Ellen King, whom he married in 1951.

1956 took both spouses apprenticeships for English Literature at the University of British Columbia, where they helped Earle Birney and Roy Daniells to organize the Department of Creative Writing. In 1963 she organized to host a poetry conference, which was attended among others by Denise Levertov, Charles Olson, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Duncan, Margaret Avison and Philip Whalen.

The home of Tallman served some local poets as an enclave of poetry, where the eccentric Jack Spicer some of his now legendary lectures held to the theory of poetry. Two years later the couple Tallman organized another poetry conference in Berkeley, California.

Tallman was sometimes criticized in the episode that he had the poet Circle Vancouver transformed into a Californian branch. Tallmanns approach when approaching the poetry included the so-called Black Mountain School, but also showed the influence of the Beat Generation, the New American Poets and the Language Poets. The Canadian poets he has exercised the greatest direct influence on Bill Bissett, Stan Persky and Howard White, and George Bowering prepared, Frank Davey, Fred Wah and Jamie Reid on the path to TISH.

Works

  • The Poetics of the New American Poetry New York:. Grove, 1973 ISBN 0-394-17801-7 (edited by Donald Allen)
  • Godawful Streets of Man Toronto: Coach House, 1978.
  • In the Midst Vancouver: Talon Books, 1992.
Washington (state) Robert Duncan (poet) Black Mountain College Jamie Reid (Canadian poet)
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