Aram Saroyan
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Aram Saroyan speaking at Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, Los Angeles.
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| Born |
September 25, 1943 New York City, New York, U.S |
| Nationality | Armenian American |
| Notable works | Lighght |
| Spouse | Gailyn Saroyan |
| Children |
Strawberry Saroyan Cream Saroyan/Armenak Saroyan |
| Relatives |
William Saroyan (father) Carol Grace (mother) Lucy Saroyan (sister) Walter Matthau (step-father) |
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 playwright and author 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.
During the 1970's 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 latter published by Black Sparrow Press in 1998. In 2007 several previous collections were reissued together as Complete Minimal Poems by Ugly Duckling Presse of Brooklyn. The Poetry Society of America awarded Complete Minimal Poems the 2008 William Carlos Williams Award
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. In 1985 he wrote Trio: Oona Chaplin, Carol Matthau, Gloria Vanderbilt: Portrait of an Intimate Friendship, published by Linden Press/Simon & Schuster.
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