Tallman, Warren

TALLMAN, Warren, teacher, literary critic (b 17 Nov 1921, Seattle; d 1 July 1994, Vancouver). He grew up in Olympia, WA, and came to VANCOUVER in 1956 with his wife Ellen to teach in the English department at UBC. During the 1960s their home was a literary drop-in centre where major American poets such as Allen Ginsberg, Robert Creeley and Charles Olson stayed and a new generation of local writers came to meet them. Controversial because of his aggressive advocacy of contemporary US styles in...

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