# Warren Tallman

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{{Short description|Canadian literary critic (1921–1994)}}
'''Warren Tallman''' (17 November 1921 – 1 July 1994) was an [American](/source/United_States)-born [poetry](/source/poetry) professor who influenced the [Vancouver](/source/Vancouver) [Tish](/source/TISH) poets.

== History ==
Born in [Seattle](/source/Seattle%2C_Washington), Tallman was raised in [Tumwater, Washington](/source/Tumwater%2C_Washington). He attended the [University of California, Berkeley](/source/University_of_California%2C_Berkeley) on the [G.I. Bill](/source/G.I._Bill), writing dissertations on [Henry James](/source/Henry_James) and [Joseph Conrad](/source/Joseph_Conrad). There he met Ellen King; they married in 1951.

In 1956, Tallman and his wife accepted teaching jobs in the [English](/source/English_studies) department at the [University of British Columbia](/source/University_of_British_Columbia), helped [Earle Birney](/source/Earle_Birney) and [Roy Daniells](/source/Roy_Daniells) to organize the creative writing department. In 1963, they hosted a poetry conference attended by [Denise Levertov](/source/Denise_Levertov), [Charles Olson](/source/Charles_Olson), [Allen Ginsberg](/source/Allen_Ginsberg), [Robert Duncan](/source/Robert_Duncan_(poet)), [Margaret Avison](/source/Margaret_Avison), [Robert Creeley](/source/Robert_Creeley), and [Philip Whalen](/source/Philip_Whalen), [Daphne Marratt.](/source/Daphne_Marlatt)<ref>[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</ref> The Tallman home itself also served as a poetry enclave of sorts. It was in the Tallman home that [Jack Spicer](/source/Jack_Spicer) gave some of his lectures.<ref>See [Peter Gizzi](/source/Peter_Gizzi)</ref> Two years later, they held another poetry conference in [Berkeley, California](/source/Berkeley%2C_California).

Tallman was sometimes criticized for turning the [Vancouver](/source/Vancouver) poetry circle into a California [branch plant](/source/branch_plant). Tallman embraced the [Black Mountain school](/source/Black_Mountain_poets) approach to poetry, but also showed the influence of the [Beats](/source/Beat_generation), the [New American Poets](/source/New_American_Poetry) and the [Language Poets](/source/Language_poetry). Among the Canadian poets he is said to have influenced are [George Bowering](/source/George_Bowering), [Lionel Kearns](/source/Lionel_Kearns), [Frank Davey](/source/Frank_Davey), [Jamie Reid](/source/Jamie_Reid), [Fred Wah](/source/Fred_Wah), [bill bissett](/source/Bill_Bissett), [Stan Persky](/source/Stan_Persky) and [Howard White](/source/Howard_White_(writer)).

==Selected bibliography==
* ''The Poetics of the New American Poetry'' New York: Grove, 1973. {{ISBN|0-394-17801-7}} (edited with [Donald Allen](/source/Donald_Allen))
* ''Godawful Streets of Man'' Toronto: Coach House, 1978.
* ''In the Midst'' Vancouver: Talonbooks, 1992.

==Notes==
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==References==
* [http://www.abcbookworld.com/?state=view_author&author_id=59 Author Bank: Warren Tallman] at [BC BookWorld](/source/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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Category:1921 births
Category:1994 deaths
Category:Canadian literary critics
Category:Educators from Seattle
Category:Academic staff of the University of British Columbia
Category:People from Tumwater, Washington
Category:American emigrants to Canada
Category:University of California, Berkeley alumni
Category:Poetry instructors

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