“Aram Saroyan’s ‘minimal’ poems of the 1960s demonstrated a completely unprecedented handling of words — often single words — that combined astounding economy with palpable textural warmth. Untitled poems that read in their entirety “eyeye” and “lobstee” evinced a pleasure in words that everybody could recognize …. In every one of Saroyan’s page acts, the sound of typewriter keys inscribing blank paper are as audible to the mind’s ear as the words themselves. Coffee Coffee was published as a mimeograph edition by Vito Acconci and Bernadette Mayer’s 0 to 9 imprint in 1967, and was one of Saroyan’s earliest collections, containing such gems as “guarantee,” “added” and “rinse.” Acconci has since recorded his admiration for these works: ‘In the late sixties, when I called myself a poet, Aram was the poet I envied.’” — Google Books

Emptying out each centered text’s surrounding page like for a painting on a gallery wall, the black-and-white Coffee Coffee gives each presented, and often quotidian, word expansive room to breathe, stretch, and proliferate.