Main Entry Heading-Personal Name
Kearns, Lionel John, 1937-
BRS document number
000001622
Cataloging Source
BVAS ENG
Physical Description
105 items. 12 cm. (8 folders in 1 box).
Summary, Abstract, Annotaion, and Scope etc
The papers include essays on the poetics of Charles Olson and Kearns' own 'stacked verse,' manuscripts of early poems, and correspondence with editors of various little magazines. The correspondence includes a small group of letters from George Bowering.
Biographical or Historical Note
Lionel John Kearns is a Vancouver area writer, poet, and professor of English at Simon Fraser University. His work began to appear in little magazines in Canada, Mexico and the United States during the early sixties, initially influenced by the writings of Charles Olson and strongly tied to the circumstantial and particular in his own experience.
Subject Heading-Topical
Poets, Canadian - twentieth century.; Canadian poetry - twentieth century.
