Carla Harryman
Carla Harryman is an American poet, essayist, and playwright often associated with the Language poets. She teaches Creative Writing at Eastern Michigan University and serves on the MFA faculty of the Milton Avery School of the Arts at Bard College.
Life and work
Born in Orange, California, Harryman studied at the University of California, Santa Barbara and San Francisco State University. In 1979, she co-founded the San Francisco Poets Theater, which staged experimental plays, including her Third Man and other plays.Harryman co-edited a book devoted to the work of Kathy Acker.
Publications
- Percentage, 1979, Tuumba
- Under the Bridge, 1980, This Press
- Property, 1982, Tuumba
- The Middle, 1983, Gaz Press
- Vice, 1986, Potes and Poets
- Animal Instincts: Prose, Plays, Essays, 1989, This Press
- In the Mode of, 1992, Zasterle
- Memory Play, 1994, O Books
- There Never Was a Rose Without a Thorn, 1995, City Lights
- The Words: After Carl Sandburg's Rootabaga Stories and Jean-Paul Sartre, 1994, O Books
- Gardener of Stars, 2001, Atelos
- Baby, 2005, Adventures in Poetry
- Tourjours L’epine Est Sous La Rose, 2006, Ikko Translation of There Never Was a Rose Without a Thorn. Translated by Martin Richet
- Open Box , 2007, Belladonna Books,
- Lust for Life: On the Writing of Kathy Acker, 2006, Verso : co-edited with Amy Scholder and Avital Ronell.
- Adorno's Noise, 2008, Essay Press
- The Wide Road, 2011, Belladonna Books
- W--/M--, 2013, SplitLevel Texts
- Artifact of Hope, 2017, Ordinance Series, Kenning Editions
- L'impromptue de Hannah/Hannah Cut In, 2018. Translated by Abigail Lange, Joca Seria
- Sue in Berlin, 2018, "To" Series, PURH
- Sue á Berlin, 2018. Translated by Sabine Huynh, "To" Series, PURH
- A Voice to Perform, 2020, SplitLevel Texts
Personal life