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SAROYAN, Aram

Literature & Fiction

Penguin??Books

William Saroyan

Harcourt, Brace. Jovanovich

The son of the late William Saroyan describes his father's struggle against cancer and the family's attempts to become closer to the dying writer

Last Rites: The Death of William Saroyan

Biographies & Memoirs

William Morrow & Co.

A poet's journey that is also a multi-faceted narrative of the key Beat figures Kerouac, Ginsberg, Cassady, and Burroughs.

Genesis Angels: The Saga of Lew Welch and the Beat Generation

Self-Help

Stress Management

Morrow

Genesis Angels

William Morrow

Aram Saroyan's The Street: An Autobiographical Novel tells what it was like to come of age in New York City in the turbulent period of Vietnam and L.S.D., of racial unrest and rock-and-roll. Saroyan's free-wheeling, poignant and funny autobiographical novel deals with near stardom in Hollywood (Mike Nichols wanted him for the title role in "The Graduate"), his father, William Saroyan, his step-father, Walter Matthau, and a fascinating cast of characters from the world famous to the drop-outs of the psychedelic revolution.  A screen adaptation of The Street, written and directed by Noam J. Christopher, can be viewed at ubu.com/film/saroyan.html.  "Here is a novel that pins down an era." -Bookpeople  Aram Saroyan's Complete Minimal Poems received the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America.  His many prose books include Genesis Angels: The Saga of Lew Welch and the Beat Generation, Artists in Trouble: New Stories, and Door to the River: Essays and Reviews from the 1960s into the Digital Age.  "A writer who looks deeply into himself and his own experience, confronts what he finds there with real courage and reports what he has experienced with a measure of candor that is both breathtaking and, at moments, heartbreaking."    -Jonathan Kirsch, Los Angeles Times

Street an Autobiographical Novel

Arts & Literature

Bookstore Pr

Recounts the story behind the trial of a schizophrenic one-time call girl for the murder of her abusive, sex-crazed, sexagenarian husband in a exclusive country club near Palm Springs

Rancho Mirage: An American Tragedy of Manners, Madness, and Murder

True Crime

Barricade Books, Inc.

O My Generation and Other Poems

Bookslinger

Rest: Poetry

Aram Saroyan's "minimal" poems of the 1960s demonstrated a completely unprecedented handling of words-often single words-that combined astounding economy with palpable textural warmth. Untitled poems that read in their entirety "eyeye" and "lobstee" evinced a pleasure in words that everybody could recognize-except Senator Jesse Helms, who publicly objected to Saroyan's poem "lighght" when its author received an NEA award-but which nobody else (except perhaps Gertrude Stein) had quite nailed until Aram Saroyan came along. In every one of Saroyan's page acts, the sound of typewriter keys inscribing blank paper are as audible to the mind's ear as the words themselves. Coffee Coffee was published as a mimeograph edition by Vito Acconci and Bernadette Mayer's 0 To 9 imprint in 1967, and was one of Saroyan's earliest collections, containing such gems as "guarantee," "added" and "rinse." Acconci has since recorded his admiration for these works: "In the late sixties, when I called myself a poet, Aram was the poet I envied."

Coffee Coffee

Arts & Photography

Individual Artists

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