[New-Poetry] Aram Saroyan Sells Blue Sky

[ts mclain]

"He had a very quiet streak but could get snarky if disappointed."

On the Meyers-Briggs typology chart--this places him where?



On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 1:21 AM, R Dillon <elemenope_productions at hotmail.com>
wrote:

>  Aram Saroyan had a program.
>
> A colleague, as well as an Obamaesque egomaniac (Saying nothing and saying
> it especially well in a cagey way.), he made his entrances and exits at the
> Grolier Bookshop in the '73-'74 epoch. Gordon, George Burroughs (Orson
> Bean's father), Judge Alinsky
> (who compelled Gordon to erect a last will one afternoon which I witnessed
> legally), Ken Irby, Geoffrey Movius, Achilles Fang, Bruce Comjean, Bob
> Creeley, smoking Vantage cigarettes, (Patty Smith and Bockris/Wylie's early
> publisher) and I were conferring one fine noon when Saroyan entered.
>
> He had hired a skywriter airplane to contrail his poetry over the
> Harvard/Yale football game which was being played at that moment.
>
> Aram, black haired, alabaster skin, black eyed, talked with his arms.
>
> (As many of you know, he is the scion of that famous Dallas department
> store [N/M] which sells mink slippers, as well as having had a world famous
> author as his father.  He studied macrobiotics, as I had, with Michio
> Kushi.  Those were lite and thin days. I went on to dine at the John Birch
> Restaurant, Cardello's Cafeteria, where each Cardello had their own kiosk,
> food specialty, and cash register.  Aram stuck with brown rice and hiziki
> seaweed at the Seventh Inn cattycorner to the Ritz Hotel downtown, and even
> named his little girls, "Strawberry, " and, "Cream."  He had a very quiet
> streak but could get snarky if disappointed.  Anyway.)
>
> Aram explained that life was like television.  It had different channels.
> "Right now, " he said, "over a channel that I turned on at the stadium, I am
> writing the word, "SKY," in the sky over the upturned heads of 100,000 of
> our friends."  He paused and took a long pregnant look from eye to eye
> around the room.  "See it yourselves, up there in the Cambridge blue by the
> Charles River.  SKY.  Curleycued in white cloud writing.  And now comes the
> best part.  It is dissolving before our very eyes."  He announced that he
> was changing the station and exited into Plympton Street.
>
> His central aesthetic principle: "For poetry to be made new, the slate
> must be wiped clean. Totally. At the outset, before the writing is begun."
>
> Another time he stole a very important one word poem from me, and he must
> give it back.
>
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>
> R. Dillon
>
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