Aram Saroyan (born 1943) is an American poet, novelist, biographer, memoirist and playwright. 1943 (MCMXLIII) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1943 calendar). ... Emily Dickinson, one of the best known American poets. ... A novel is an extended work of written, narrative, prose fiction, usually in story form; the writer of a novel is a novelist. ... This article needs cleanup. ... As a literary genre, a memoir (from the Latin memoria, meaning memory) forms a subclass of autobiography, although it is an older form of writing. ... Template:Unsourced A playwright, also known as a dramatist, is someone who writes dramatic literature or drama. ...

Saroyan's poetry has been widely anthologized and appears in many textbooks. Among the collections of his poetry are Aram Saroyan, Pages, and Day and Night: Bolinas Poems, the latter published by Black Sparrow Press in 1999. Saroyan's prose books include Genesis Angels: The Saga of Lew Welch and the Beat Generation; Last Rites, a book about the death of his father, the playwright and short story writer William Saroyan ^[1] Black Sparrow Books, formerly known as Black Sparrow Press, is a small book publisher and an imprint of David R. Godin, Publisher. ... Lewis Barrett Welch, Jr. ... William Saroyan (August 31, 1908 - May 18, 1981) was an Armenian-American author who wrote many plays and short stories about growing up impoverished as the son of Armenian immigrants. ...

The link below to the Saroyan link at UbuWeb describes: UbuWeb is an internet museum that showcases all strains of the avant-garde including poetry, music, film, sound art, ethnopoetics, and outsider arts. ...

The groundbreaking 1960s concrete poetry of Aram Saroyan [including] The Street, a film based on Saroyan's life during that period. Other works include three full-length books of classic concrete poetry: Pages (Random House, 1969), Aram Saroyan (Random House, 1968), and Cloth: An Electric Novel (Big Table, 1971). Saroyan chronicles his making of these poems in his essay Flower Power and his historical postition is noted in Mary Ellen Solt's 1968 Concrete Poetry: A World View : United States Concrete poetry is poetry in which the typographical arrangement of words is as important in conveying the intended effect as the conventional elements of the poem, such as meaning of words, rhythm, rhyme and so on. ...

Aram Saroyan's mother was actress Carol Grace (a.k.a. Carol Marcus, Carol Matthau), and his sister was actress Lucy Saroyan. Carol Grace (September 11, 1924 - July 20, 2003), was an American actress and author; she is usually referred to as either Carol Marcus Saroyan or Carol Matthau. ... Lucy Saroyan (born January 17, 1946, San Francisco, California) was an American actress. ...

References

1. ^ http://www.ubu.com/historical/saroyan/saroyan.html.

External links

• Aram Saroyan at UBUWEB listen and watch very rare audio & video recordings made by Saroyan in the mid to late 1960s.