Aram Saroyan's poems are amazing; typographic, clever, weird, thoughtful, and bridge the gap between concrete poetry (shape forms meaning) and language and visual typographic form.
I have never been one to sit down with a book of poetry and start reading. I just don't quite get it, but this volume startled me. Because that is exactly what I did - sit down and read poems.
It didn't hurt that they were a close cousin to graphic design, and I could appreciate the minimal gesture and the relationship of the letter forms and the forms responding to or enhancing the meaning of each poem.
This book remains one of my favorites, i wish, however, that it was letter press printed (to complete the formal elegance and attention to detail - this needs to be experienced with better stock and binding).