Gerald Burns
Encyclopedia
Life
He was educated at Harvard UniversityHarvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
, Trinity College, Dublin
Trinity College, Dublin
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, and taught at Southern Methodist University
Southern Methodist University
Southern Methodist University is a private university in Dallas, Texas, United States. Founded in 1911 by the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, SMU operates campuses in Dallas, Plano, and Taos, New Mexico. SMU is owned by the South Central Jurisdiction of the United Methodist Church...
and New York University
New York University
New York University is a private, nonsectarian research university based in New York City. NYU's main campus is situated in the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan...
. In 1975 Burns moved to Dallas, Texas
Dallas, Texas
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. In 1994, he moved to Portland, Oregon
Portland, Oregon
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.
His papers are held at University of California, San Diego
University of California, San Diego
The University of California, San Diego, commonly known as UCSD or UC San Diego, is a public research university located in the La Jolla neighborhood of San Diego, California, United States...
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Awards
- 1992 National Poetry SeriesNational Poetry SeriesThe National Poetry Series is an American literary awards program.Every year since 1979 it has sponsored the publication of five books of poetry...
Competition, for Shorter Poems - 1985 NEA Fellowship for poetry
Works
- Laughter in the Gallery (1966)
- Sonnets from the Middle English
- Boccherini's Minuet (1972)
- The Myth of Accidence (ca. 1973)
- A Book of Spells (1975)
- Letters to Obscure Men (1979)
- Toward a Phenomenology of Written Aart (1979)
- Prose (1982)
- A Thing About Language (1989)
- Probability, Standing Stone Press
- Fuzzy Dice, Standing Stone Press