Aram Saroyan Day & Night Bolinas Poems Signed Limited Black Sparrow Press 1998

Description

Aram Saroyan occupies an unusual place in American letters. Son of Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and playwright William Saroyan, he carved out a literary identity entirely his own through minimalist poetry, experimental writing, and a career that stretched across poetry, fiction, memoir, film, and journalism. While some readers know him for his famous one-word poem “lighght,” collectors recognize Saroyan as one of the most distinctive voices to emerge from the postwar American poetry scene.

Published by Black Sparrow Press in 1998, Day & Night: Bolinas Poems gathers Saroyan’s reflections from California’s legendary coastal artist community. The edition was produced in a hardcover limitation of only 100 signed and numbered copies, along with 20 lettered copies. Designed by Barbara Martin, the volume is among the more visually striking late-period Black Sparrow productions, with its bold sun-and-moon imagery carrying across the binding and title page. A desirable signed limited edition from one of America’s most original poets and from the publisher most closely associated with collectible contemporary literature.

A beautiful signed Black Sparrow limited that looks every bit as good on the shelf as it does in the hand.