Burns, Gerald, 1940-1997

<p>Gerald Burns 1940-1997</p>


<p>Gerald Burns was an American poet and artist, author of A Book of Spells (first third) (Quincy IL: Salt Lick Press, 1978), Toward a Phenomenology of Written Art (New Paltz NY: Treacle Press, 1979), Boccherini's Minuet (Quincy IL: Salt Lick Press, 1981), Aesthetics (Dallas: WOWAPI: 1986), A Thing About Language (Carbondale IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1990), Shorter Poems (Normal IL: Dalkey Archive Press, 1993), Longer Poems (Dallas: Barnburner Press, 1994) and other books.</p>

<p>He was born and raised in Michigan, and he went to Harvard and Trinity (Dublin). He lived, among other places, in Dallas, Thompson CT, Austin, and Portland OR.</p>

<p>The Gerald Burns Society thinks his work ought to be available to a wider public.</p>

Gerald Burns (1940 in Detroit, Michigan – 1997) was an American poet, and artist. He was educated at Harvard University, Trinity College, Dublin, and taught at Southern Methodist University and New York University. In 1975 Burns moved to Dallas, Texas. In 1994, he moved to Portland, Oregon. Burns illustrated several of his own books, and designed the covers for Boccherini's Minuet and Prose. In addition to his writing and art, Burns also dabbled in amateur conjuring.

Gerald Burns was born in Michigan; attended Harvard, Trinity College (Dublin), and Southern Methodist University. His books of poetry include Boccherini's Minuet, Letters to Obscure Men, A book of Spells [first third] (Salt Lick), and Longer Poems (Dalkey Archive). He authored another collection of essays, A Thing About Language, published by S.I.U. Press. A prolific writer of distinctive long-lined verse much remarked by Robert Creeley, among others, Gerald Burns died suddenly on July 23, 1997, aged 54.