Poetry. Visual Poetry. Long-cherished in out-of-print editions, anthologies and text books, and more recently celebrated on the internet, Aram Saroyan's groundbreaking concrete and minimalist poems of the 1960s are gathered together here in a single, much-needed volume. COMPLETE MINIMAL POEMS includes the entire contents of Aram Saroyan (Random House, 1968), Pages (Random House, 1969), The Rest (Telegraph, 1971), as well as Saroyan's contribution, "Electric Poems," to the anthology All Stars (Goliard-Grossman, 1972), and a sequence, "Short Poems," which hasn't appeared previously. With ties to the work of such writers and artists as e.e. cummings, Andy Warhol, Gertrude Stein, Donald Judd, Ian Hamilton Finlay and Steve Reich, COMPLETE MINIMAL POEMS confirms Aram Saroyan's place among the most daring and engaging figures in modern poetry.
Author Hometown: LOS ANGELES, CA USA
About the author: Aram Saroyan is an internationally known poet, novelist, biographer, memoirist and playwright. His poetry has been widely anthologized and appears in many textbooks. Among the collections of his poetry are Aram Saroyan and Pages (both Random House). His largest collection, Day and Night: Bolinas Poems, was published by Black Sparrow Press in 1999. Saroyan's prose books include Genesis Angels: The Saga of Lew Welch and the Beat Generation; Last Rites, a book about the death of his father, the playwright and short story writer William Saroyan; Trio: Portrait of an Intimate Friendship; The Romantic, a novel that was a Los Angeles Times Book Review Critics' Choice selection; a memoir, Friends in the World: The Education of a Writer; and the true crime Literary Guild selection Rancho Mirage: An American Tragedy of Manners, Madness and Murder. Selected essays, Starting Out in the Sixties, appeared in 2001, and Artists in Trouble: New Stories in early 2002.
Reviews:
http://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/04/i-was-planning-on-running-this-note.html
http://www.aramsaroyan.com/
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http://shikow.blogspot.com/2007/11/interview-with-aram-saroyan-october-5th.html
http://www.forward.com/articles/13511/
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http://artvoice.com/issues/v6n32/book_reviews/complete_minimal_poems
http://dbqp.blogspot.com/2007/07/13-minutes-277-pages-of-poetry.html
http://intercapillaryspace.blogspot.com/2007/08/memorynostalgiaperception-and.html
http://www.ahadadabooks.com/index.php?option=com_jd-wp&Itemid=28&p=544
http://jacketmagazine.com/34/faville-saroyan-grenier.shtml
