SAROYAN, Aram

Before he became a pop memoirist, Saroyan was briefly a visual poet whose specialty was running words together to create something else that must be seen, because it could not be read aloud: lighght, eyeye, for two instances, the ideographic effect of the latter additionally benefiting from the suggestion of eyeglasses. A pioneering Conceptual poet, Saroyan also published in the mid-1960s a book that was simply a box of blank paper.