CLASSIFICATION
Swallow ID:
7105
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 interviewed by Roy Miki in Vancouver on February 28, 1983 Session 2 Tape 5
Title Source:
Recording and J-card
Language:
English
Production Context:
Documentary recording
Identifiers:
[]
Rights
Rights:
Copyright Not Evaluated (CNE)
CREATORS
Name:
Tallman, Warren
Dates:
1921-1994
Name:
Williams, William Carlos
Dates:
1883-1963
Notes:
Roy Miki's thesis is somehow based on William Carlos Williams, he keeps talking about it all through his interview with Warren Tallman
Name:
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Dates:
1803-1882
Notes:
On the second side of tape one, Warren Tallman keeps talking about Emerson, Emily, and Whitman and their impressive impact on the literary world
Name:
Whitman, Walt
Dates:
1819-1892.
Notes:
On the second side of tape one, Warren Tallman keeps talking about Emerson, Emily, and Whitman and their impressive impact on the literary world
Name:
Dickinson, Emily
Dates:
1830-1886
Notes:
On the second side of tape one, Warren Tallman keeps talking about Emerson, Emily, and Whitman and their impressive impact on the literary world
Name:
Miki, Roy
Dates:
1942-2024
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:
T00:32:29
Size:
34.8 MB
Bitrate:
32 bit
Encoding:
WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files
Channel Field:
Stereo
Sample Rate:
44.1 kHz
Duration:
T01:05:00
Size:
70.3 MB
Bitrate:
32 bit
Encoding:
WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files
Dates
Date:
1983-02-28
Type:
Production Date
Source:
J-card
LOCATION
Address:
Vancouver, BC, Canada
Latitude:
49.2530
Longitude:
-123.1128
CONTENT
NOTES
Type:
General
Note:
Side one and the first 32 minutes of the second side are duplicate. The first side on tape one finishes while Roy Miki is talking and then Warren Tallman interview tape one side two begins 33:45 on the second side. There is some blank parts between side one and two of tape one
Type:
General
Note:
Tape one, Side two: Warren Tallman mostly focuses on Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and Ralph Waldo Emerson and how their impressive literary works were off the flow and beat back then in their time, and how their works distinguish them from the British literal world
Type:
General
Note:
Tape one, Side one: Warren Tallman and Roy Miki mostly focus on Roy Miki's thesis on William Carlos Williams, and phone call he received regarding its publication; meanwhile he also talks about how he wrote his dissertation. He finally got to share the story how the briefcase that he had his notes and dissertation in got stolen
Type:
General
Note:
Following what we hear in the beginning of sides one and two, this tape is the first tape that Roy Miki is recording in the second session of his series of interview with Warren Tallman.
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