CLASSIFICATION
Swallow ID:
7073
Partner Institution:
Simon Fraser University
Source Collection Title:
Warren Tallman Fonds
Source Collection ID:
MsC 26
Source Collection Description:
Warren Tallman (7 November 1921 - 1 July 1994) was an American-born poetry professor who inspired the Canadian Tish movement and influenced the mid-20th century poetry scene in Canada. Born in Seattle attended the University of California, Berkeley on the G.I. Bill. There he met Ellen King; they married in 1951. In 1956, the Tallmans accepted teaching jobs in the English department at the University of British Columbia, where they 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, and Philip Whalen. The Tallman home itself also served as a poetry enclave of sorts. It was there that Jack Spicer gave some of his now legendary lectures. Two years later, they held another poetry conference in Berkeley, California. Sometimes criticized by Canadian literary nationalists for turning the Vancouver poetry circle into a California branch plant, Tallman embraced the Black Mountain school approach to poetry, and also was influenced from the Beats and other New American Poets. The fonds consists of correspondence, manuscripts, teaching papers, personal and financial records, material pertaining to the Vancouver Poetry Centre, photographs, audiotapes, ephemera, etc.
Source Collection Contributing Unit:
SFU Library
Source Collection URI:
Source Collection Image URL:
Sub Series Title:
Warren Tallman Fonds
ITEM DESCRIPTION
Title:
Warren Tallman's program notes recorded in Vancouver on March 4, 1989 for Marthe Larsen for an upcoming poetry reading
Title Source:
J-card and Recording
Language:
English
Production Context:
Documentary recording
Identifiers:
[]
Rights
Rights:
Copyright Not Evaluated (CNE)
CREATORS
Name:
Tallman, Warren
Dates:
1921-1994
Name:
Larsen, Marthe
Notes:
Warren Tallman is recording Marthe Larsen a preface for the poetry reading event that he has with her
Name:
[Tallman?], Ellen
Notes:
Ellen is one of the names mentioned by Warren Tallman in the beginning of this tape. We are not sure if she is Ellen Tallman, it's just our guess based on the info we get listening to this tape
Name:
[Kennedy?], Sarah
Notes:
on the first side, Warren Tallman reads the poem "Still Life" from Sarah's book named "Even in Winter"
CONTRIBUTORS
MATERIAL DESCRIPTION
Image:
Recording Type:
Analogue
AV Type:
Audio
Material Designation:
Cassette
Physical Composition:
Magnetic Tape
Extent:
1/8 inch
Sound Quality:
Good
Physical Condition:
Good
Other Physical Description:
Black and white clear jewel case with J-card
DIGITAL FILE DESCRIPTION
Channel Field:
Stereo
Sample Rate:
44.1 kHz
Duration:
T00:24:49
Size:
35.2 MB
Bitrate:
32 bit
Encoding:
WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files
Channel Field:
Stereo
Sample Rate:
44.1 kHz
Duration:
T00:25:02
Size:
33.9 MB
Bitrate:
32 bit
Encoding:
WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files
Notes:
It's blank
Dates
Date:
1989-03-04
Type:
Production Date
Source:
Recording
Notes:
This tape was recorded on March 4, 1989 for an poetry reading event on March 5
Date:
1989-03-05
Type:
Production Date
Source:
J-card and Recording
Notes:
The poetry reading event that Warren Tallman is recording this tape for is on March 5, 1989
LOCATION
Address:
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Latitude:
49.2530
Longitude:
-123.1128
CONTENT
NOTES
Type:
General
Note:
It seems Warren Tallman is recording this tape for someone for named "Alison"; this is the name he mentions in the beginning of side one
Marthe Larsen, who may have gone by Marthe Whitcomb at this time, was Ellen Tallman's best friend when the girls were in their early twenties and met at Mills College (CA). Marthe--who both Warren and Ellen celebrate in other recordings for her intellectual and artistic giftedness--would go on to marry poet Kenneth Rexroth (and later, be in a relationship with Robert Creeley). Like Ellen Tallman, Larsen would have been at the center of poetry circles in San Francisco including Black Mountain and Beat poets, as well as Bay Area anarchist groups.
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