Electric Poems was originally published in 1972, as part of Tom Clark's ALL STARS . Clark had asked contributors "to present a selection of some twenty pages of new work." Electric Poems is thus a sort of chapbook, featuring a continuation of the minimalist poetics Saroyan had pursued in the late 1960s, which never appeared as such.
Electric Poems was originally published in 1972, as part of Tom Clark's ALL STARS . Clark had asked contributors "to present a selection of some twenty pages of new work." Electric Poems is thus a sort of chapbook, featuring a continuation of the minimalist poetics Saroyan had pursued in the late 1960s, which never appeared as such.