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- Saroyan’s four-legged “m” has been cited in the Guinness Book of Records as the world’s shortest poem.
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Jul 2, 2013 · This poem was written by Aram Saroyan, an Armenian-American poet, novelist, biographer, memoirist and playwright. Saroyan’s four-legged “m” has been cited in the Guinness Book of Records as the world’s shortest poem.
Sep 8, 2020 · Aram Saroyan and the Art of the One-Word Poem. “In effect the single word is a new reading process; like electricity — instant and continuous.”. By: Paul Stephens. A really perfect poem has an infinitely small vocabulary. —Jack Spicer, “Second letter to Federico García Lorca”.
Saroyan’s “ ” holds the Guinness world record for the shortest poem ever written. A ‘poster poem’, its magic lies in the slow germination of one letter from another, giving birth to a...
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Jan 9, 2021 · However, if I were sitting in the judge’s seat, I’d say Gillian’s “fleas” is the shortest “couplet” and Aram Saroyan’s one-word poem, “M,” wins the shortest poem prize because he wrote his one-letter poem before Curry did.
Lines on the Antiquity of Microbes", also known simply as "Fleas", is a couplet commonly cited as the shortest poem ever written, composed by American poet Strickland Gillilan in the early 20th century.
Saroyan's four-legged "m" has been cited in the Guinness Book of Records as the world's shortest poem. Admirer Bob Grumman has written that the poem plays on formation of an alphabet, as if 'm' and 'n' are in the process of separating.
Perhaps the most famous of Saroyan’s one-word poems is “lighght.” George Plimpton included it in The American Literary Anthology, an anthology paid for by the newly established National Endowment for the Arts. The poem became the center of a heated debate over government funding for the arts.
