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Aram Saroyan’s minimalist approach to verse caused an uproar in the 1960s with the publication of two poems by the author, one being an unconventionally spelled single word piece, entitled lighght, and the second, even shorter, being the letter “m” with four legs. Noted conservatives were extremely displeased, shouting “That’s not a poem!” or “That’s not even spelled correctly!” while others looked beyond the surface, saying things like, “{Saroyan] plays with the glimmering quality of light, leaving us with intimations of his single syllable of light's expanding, silently and weightlessly, 'gh' by 'gh', into . . . Final Illumination," or “the poem plays on formation of an alphabet, as if 'm' and 'n' are in the process of separating. It can also be understood as a pun on "I am”, implying the formation of consciousness itself.” Each side seemed to make a good case for its point and the argument never resolved.

n a sense, Mr. Saroyan may be seen as an early example, perhaps, indeed, the very first, of the trend toward literary minimalism emerging in the 1990s exemplified by 3 minute long “slam” poems, and the more recent, less sensational “flash fiction” movement represented by the F-Bomb series at the Mercury Café in Denver. But far from a one trick pony, Saroyan has tried any number of methodologies besides concrete poetry, including prose fiction and nonfiction. He has also worked as an essayist, playwright, educator, editor, and publisher over the course of his career.

His latest, Still Night in L.A., is a detective novel synthesizing the best bits of crimefic top dogs Chandler, Hammett, and MacDonald. 21st century L.A. detective Michael Shepard narrates his adventures in laconic first person interspersed with evocative black and white photos of Los Angeles taken by the author (except for the one on the cover of an L.A. highway sunset reflected in a car’s rear view mirror, by his son, Armenak Saroyan). One morning, Shepard is invited to the fashionable Hollywood apartment of an attractive women and hired to be her bloodhound. Within a few hours, the gumshoe finds himself centrally placed in a network of intrigues which promises the healing of a wound long left uncauterized. CONTINUED AT THE LINK BELOW:
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Still Night in LA Aram Saroyan Books Reviews

I’ve been reading detective fiction since I was a pre-teen when my mother handed me an Earl Stanley Gardner novel. I’ve been at it ever since.
Aram Saroyan’s Still Night in L.A. arrived a couple of days ago. First of all, as an old book publisher I had to admire the look and feel of the book. Great cover and well-made. That out of the way, I started reading and couldn’t put it down. So different from anything else I read. I loved the interior dialogues of the main character. I like to feel the drama of what a character thinks and feels. A perfect rainy day read.
I read and loved this book shortly after its publication. It's L.A. detective genre in a unique new skin. Michael Shepard, Saroyan's L.A. private eye struggles, with class and refreshing honesty, with personal problems we can all relate to while he's on the case, on the trail of his man. He's not only funny but flawed in ways we can identify with. But then my perspective of the novel changed after I went to a book reading by Saroyan at City Lights books. Saroyan explained that this slender treasure of a novel had once been eight or nine times longer. He cut it to the bone a la Raymond Carver and I was then able to understand and appreciate exquisite the narrative jewels that survived his sculpting. I read the book a second time, now aware the beauty of its structure. I couldn't recommend any other book more highly. James Jordan
Aram Saroyan’s minimalist approach to verse caused an uproar in the 1960s with the publication of two poems by the author, one being an unconventionally spelled single word piece, entitled lighght, and the second, even shorter, being the letter “m” with four legs. Noted conservatives were extremely displeased, shouting “That’s not a poem!” or “That’s not even spelled correctly!” while others looked beyond the surface, saying things like, “{Saroyan] plays with the glimmering quality of light, leaving us with intimations of his single syllable of light's expanding, silently and weightlessly, 'gh' by 'gh', into . . . Final Illumination," or “the poem plays on formation of an alphabet, as if 'm' and 'n' are in the process of separating. It can also be understood as a pun on "I am”, implying the formation of consciousness itself.” Each side seemed to make a good case for its point and the argument never resolved.

n a sense, Mr. Saroyan may be seen as an early example, perhaps, indeed, the very first, of the trend toward literary minimalism emerging in the 1990s exemplified by 3 minute long “slam” poems, and the more recent, less sensational “flash fiction” movement represented by the F-Bomb series at the Mercury Café in Denver. But far from a one trick pony, Saroyan has tried any number of methodologies besides concrete poetry, including prose fiction and nonfiction. He has also worked as an essayist, playwright, educator, editor, and publisher over the course of his career.

His latest, Still Night in L.A., is a detective novel synthesizing the best bits of crimefic top dogs Chandler, Hammett, and MacDonald. 21st century L.A. detective Michael Shepard narrates his adventures in laconic first person interspersed with evocative black and white photos of Los Angeles taken by the author (except for the one on the cover of an L.A. highway sunset reflected in a car’s rear view mirror, by his son, Armenak Saroyan). One morning, Shepard is invited to the fashionable Hollywood apartment of an attractive women and hired to be her bloodhound. Within a few hours, the gumshoe finds himself centrally placed in a network of intrigues which promises the healing of a wound long left uncauterized. CONTINUED AT THE LINK BELOW
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