Aram Saroyan: Complete Minimal Poems
My relationship to poetry is best described as one-half giggling schoolboy and one-half philistine. The only poem I'm even remotely fond of is E.E Cummings' Buffalo Bill's, and that's because Harry Crews has part of it--"how do you like your blueeyed boy mr death?"--tattooed on his arm.
So no one is more surprised than I am that I want to know more about Aram Saroyan, practitioner of concrete poetry and thorn in the side of Jesse Helms, who got all over the National Endowment for the Arts when they gave Saroyan a cash award for his one word poem, "lighght." That last detail is from the really wonderful Richard Hell-penned article in the NYTimes about this book, published by Ugly Duckling Presse, whose mission statement should make all readers want to get out their wallets. I've asked Ugly Duckling if they would share any details about the production of this, of which
Hell writes: "This beautifully designed collection contains a poetry that shivers with itself, like something just born. Anyone interested in art made from words should have it." So stay tuned.
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