Pages

Saroyan, Aram

Published by Random House, 1969

About this Item

PAGES, poems by Aram Saroyan, softcover, stated first printing, 1969. BOOK CONDITION: good. The text block is in very good condition, with no marks or tears, with some light creasing on pages but no dog ears. Pages are printed on one side only and not numbered. Not a library book nor a remainder. No bookplate but the signature of a prior owner is written on the first free endpaper. Some soiling of edges. The white wraps are intact and in fair condition (soiled, smudged, rubbed, creased). 8 ¼ x 5 ½, Unpaginated but 47 leaves printed on one side, 8 ounces XX [From the back cover] I write on a typewriter, almost never in hand (I can hardly handwrite, I tend to draw words), and my machine -an obsolete red-top Royal Portable--is the biggest influence on my work. This red hood holds the mood, keeps my eye happy. The typeface is a standard pica; if it were another style l'd write (subtly) different poems. And when a ribbon gets dull my poems I'm sure change. (A. S.) XX Aram Saroyan is one of a mere handful of poets who have been honored with National Endowment for the Arts grants (for writing one of the best poems to appear in the nation's literary magazines) twice in two successive years. He is the only poet an entire volume of whose verse has been read from cover to cover on the 6 o'clock news (Edwin Newman, NBC-TV, New York). [From Wikipedia] Aram Saroyan (born September 25, 1943) is an American poet, novelist, biographer, memoirist and playwright, who is especially known for his minimalist poetry, famous examples of which include the one-word poem lighght and a one-letter poem comprising a four-legged version of the letter m. There has been a resurgence of interest in his work in the 21st century, evidenced by the publication in 2007 of several previous collections reissued together as Complete Minimal Poems. Saroyan was born in New York City. His parents were author and playwright William Saroyan and actress Carol Grace and his sister was actress Lucy Saroyan. He is the father of Strawberry and Cream Saroyan. He is of Armenian descent from his father's side and Russian-Jewish from his mother's. During the 1970s and 1980s he lived in a writer's community in Bolinas, California, though by 1999 he was living in Santa Monica. Saroyan's poetry has been widely anthologized and appears in many textbooks. Among the collections of his poetry are Aram Saroyan, Pages, and Day & Night: Bolinas Poems. The Poetry Society of America awarded Complete Minimal Poems the 2008 William Carlos Williams Award. Seller Inventory # 002744

Bibliographic Details

Title: Pages

Publisher: Random House

Publication Date: 1969

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Good

Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

Edition: 1st Edition