[New-Poetry] Aram Saroyan

[Chris Lott]

I thought this quote in the comments at Silliman's blog
unintentionally summed it all up well:

"I was once in Cambridge with Aram Saroyan who some of you may know
of, who at that time was writing one-word poems. He would sit and
smoke some dope and type one word and sit and look at it for hours and
take it out and type it again. Originally they were words like
"oxygen" and then one day the word "leukemia" appeared . . . ."

An anecdote that might evoke a certain kind of pathos but still does
nothing to make any of those single words a poem of value to this
reader (just when I thought a poem could get less interesting than
JOE). Even "lighght" is of more interest!

c