[New-Poetry] Aram Saroyan

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From: Bob Grumman <bobgrumman at nut-n-but.net>
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Even if we overrate "lighght," though, it has to be admitted that it did something no other poem ever did--in a genre Saroyan practically invented, the one-word poem. I would claim that any poetry-lover who looks down on such poems is as ridiculous as a poetry-lover who would look down on epics.??

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Don't you think the one-word poem can be more easily exhausted than an epic??To twist Gertrude Stein's slam of Oakland, there is only so much there there after all.? Mostly what we get is a critical apparatus and superstructure that is built around the one-word poem (or phrase poem).? While many an?epic can be exhausting for other reasons, a good?epic is endlessly mined, and it seems that it will never give up all it aspects/secrets/passageways. 

I'd agree that "lighght"?is almost in a class by itself when it comes to very short or one-word poems. I do like?it a lot. But if I dwell on it too much, I find that I'm?damaging its essence.?
Finnegan

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