Day & Night

Poetry. DAY AND NIGHT collects Aram Saroyan's poems written in Bolinas in the 70s and 80s when he was a part of the well-known writers' community there. Previously, Saroyan was known for very short poems -- as, for example, his one-word poem "lighght" which became the subject of ongoing decades-long government and public debate after being chosen for a National Endowoment for the Arts Poetry Award by Robert Duncan in 1968. DAY AND NIGHT includes Saroyan's longer work. "As a writer in Bolinas, I eventually moved from an initial concentration on poetry into prose. As this happened, my poetry became more sporadic, and, I hope, as befits the passage from 28 to 37 years old, deepened. The title poem of this collection, "Day and Night," was also the last I worte in Bolinas ..." ("Afterword'). A past president of PEN Center West, Saroyan is a faculty member of the Masters of Professional Writing Program at USC. He lives with his family in Santa Monica. 3/19/99


Genre: Children's Fiction