12 feb 2009

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*Aram Saroyan. Complete Mimimal Poems. 2007. 270 pp

I've always been attracted to very short, minimalistic poems:

fall over

fall over

fall over

fall over

Saroyan's wit and light touch are in evidence here. I see many possibilities for writing: one-word poems, two-word poems. Levi-Strauss says of the myth that its repetitions serve to teach us its own structure. So too, here, with this poem.

1 comentario:

jwg dijo...

Hi Jonathan,
Shorter the poem, the more immediate. All occurs at once. Eye and mind can hold. Generalizations aside, Pirooz has one I think is really worth seeing.

http://www.pastsimple.org/ps4pkalayeh.html

Best,

Jim