Research Catalog

Title

Day & night : Bolinas poems / Aram Saroyan.

Author

Saroyan, Aram.

Publication

Santa Rosa, CA : Black Sparrow Press, 1998.

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Description

226 pages; 24 cm

Alternative Title

Day and night

Subjects

• Bolinas (Calif.) > Poetry
• Autobiography > Poetry

Contents

• Lines for My Autobiography -- For Tom Clark -- My Mother and My Father -- My Father Writing -- My Mother and New York -- There Are Animals in This Area -- For Voznesensky -- Full Moon Ode -- My Grandmother -- For Lewis MacAdams -- A Note -- For Richard Brautigan -- My Aunt Cosette -- For Gailyn -- Friendly Persuasion -- My Friends -- Ode to the Universe -- Ode to Power -- Rock Song -- Ode to Michael J. Brodey -- Pastorale -- Something -- Love Poem -- What a Sweet Thing -- Troubadour -- Gailyn's Bouquet -- Night-Time -- Judge a Man by His Enemies -- Madness -- I'm the Mississippi -- Quick Poem -- Shao's Book -- For Boris Pasternak -- Oh To Be in London -- Spring Song -- As a Child I Used to Wander -- A Child -- Parable -- Life Is No Arrival -- Life Is a Dream -- Fist-Fight -- The Town Needs a Magazine -- The Living Dead -- Grinding Coffee -- An Immaculate Room -- Dreams on the Wall -- Movies When I Was a Kid -- Mr. Stumola -- Summer's End --
• My Father Owned a Gun Once -- Erasers -- Martha Goetz -- When I Was Eight in Beverly Hills -- Marlon Brando -- My Neighborhood: Pacific Palisades in the Fifties -- I Played Little League -- One Night -- The Summer I Was Ten -- Thirteen -- The First Time I Tried to Have Sex -- As for Fights -- My First Acid Trip -- Three Psychiatrists -- Marblehead -- Cambridge 1971 -- Yesterday -- Cream's Song -- Poem ("I have lived to read Pasternak ...") -- Poem ("To walk with death ...") -- Sawing the Wood -- The Night -- Friendship -- We Are Hungry -- Poem ("I don't want to be a seer ...") -- Chaplin's Smile -- Walking Down Market Street -- Poem ("We are all made up of others ...") -- Poem Written Down in the Dark -- The Great American Novel -- Marriage -- A Daisy -- These Are the Days -- My Father's Flight -- Love -- O My Generation -- Snow in California -- Domestic Scene -- For Armenak Saroyan, My Grandfather -- The Mind Is a Medium -- Sonnet (In Scorpio) --
• When the Heart Melts -- Sonnet ("I sing the subtle beauty of man ...") -- The Transparent Man -- Poem ("What makes my little son try ...") -- Spring -- How To Be an American Poet -- Up in the Loft -- Sonnet ("I remember the evenings I played ...") -- For Gailyn ("I have loved you ...") -- The House -- Advice to a Young Poet -- Winter Midnight -- Sonnet ("As I watch my daughters' faces ...") -- Sonnet ("The unutterable sadness of ...") -- Everything Is Going about Its Business -- Love's Bounty -- On Being a Poet -- The Old Rooster's Soliloquy -- America -- Small Town -- The Goldfish Bowl by Matisse -- For Paul Blackburn -- Four Poems -- A Dream -- For Jim Carroll -- The Page -- Declaration -- Night Flight -- In Greece -- Getting My Car Repaired -- Photographing Rocks at Agate Beach -- The Moment -- Prayer -- Akhmatova -- John Lennon, 1940-1980 -- The Dome -- Bolinas -- Day and Night.

ISBN

• 1574230867 (cloth :alk. paper)
• 1574230859 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

98037108

OCLC

ocm39724159

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries