Complete Minimal Poems

Complete Minimal Poems collects Aram Saroyan’s groundbreaking concrete and minimalist poems of the 1960s in a single volume. First published in 2008, Complete Minimal Poems includes the entire contents of Aram Saroyan (Random House, 1968), Pages (Random House, 1969), The Rest (Telegraph, 1971), as well as Saroyan’s contribution, “Electric Poems,” to the anthology All Stars (Goliard-Grossman, 1972), and a sequence, “Short Poems,” which hasn’t appeared previously. With ties to the work of such writers and artists as e.e. cummings, Andy Warhol, Gertrude Stein, Donald Judd, Ian Hamilton Finlay, and Steve Reich, this collection confirms Aram Saroyan’s place among the most daring and engaging figures in modern poetry.

Complete Minimal Poems was originally published by Ugly Duckling Presse and edited by Primary Information co-founder James Hoff. Upon publication, the book garnered critical praise, with the New York Times Sunday Book Review claiming that “anyone interested in art made from words should have it.” It was chosen by Ron Silliman to be the recipient of the Poetry Society of America’s William Carlos Williams Award in 2008.