Gerald Burns

Gerald Burns (1940 in Detroit, Michigan – 1997) was an American poet, and artist.

Life
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.

Awards

 * 1985 NEA Creative Writing Fellowship for poetry
 * 1992 National Poetry Series Competition, for Shorter Poems

Works

 * Laughter in the Gallery (1966)
 * Sonnets from the Middle English
 * Boccherini's Minuet (1972)
 * The Myth of Accidence (c. 1973)
 * A Book of Spells (1975)
 * Letters to Obscure Men (1979)
 * Toward a Phenomenology of Written Art (1979)
 * Prose (1982)
 * A Thing About Language (1989)
 * Probability, Standing Stone Press
 * Fuzzy Dice, Standing Stone Press
 * Probability, Standing Stone Press
 * Fuzzy Dice, Standing Stone Press