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Black Sparrow Press
1998 /
Santa Rosa
Language: English
Pages: 226
Size: 6" x 9"
Books /
Literature /
Poetry
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This 200-page collection of Saroyan's post-minimal poetry chronicles, in semi-narrative form, the life of a young husband and father. Saroyan's biggest poetry volume.
DAY AND NIGHT collects Aram Saroyan's poems written in Bolinas in the 70s and 80s when he was a part of the well-known writers' community there. Previously, Saroyan was known for very short poems -- as, for example, his one-word poem ""lighght"" which became the subject of ongoing decades-long government and public debate after being chosen for a National Endowoment for the Arts Poetry Award by Robert Duncan in 1968. DAY AND NIGHT includes Saroyan's longer work. ""As a writer in Bolinas, I eventually moved from an initial concentration on poetry into prose. As this happened, my poetry became more sporadic, and, I hope, as befits the passage from 28 to 37 years old, deepened. The title poem of this collection, ""Day and Night,"" was also the last I worte in Bolinas ..."" (""Afterword'). A past president of PEN Center West, Saroyan is a faculty member of the Masters of Professional Writing Program at USC. He lives with his family in Santa Monica.
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