Aram Saroyan’s minimal poetry of the 1960s was recently reprinted in Complete Minimal Poems (Ugly Duckling Presse), which received the 2008 William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America.  His later poetry is collected in Day and Night: Bolinas Poems (Black Sparrow/Godine).  The poems selected here are from a forthcoming collection, Autumn.  He lives in Los Angeles and teaches at USC.