Carla Harryman (born January 11, 1952) is an American

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often associated with the

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. She teaches

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and serves on the MFA faculty of the

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School of the Arts at

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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."An Interview with Carla Harryman", by Megan Simpson, ''Contemporary Literature'' issue 37, vol. 4 (Winter 1996)"Interview (with Manuel Brito)", ''A Suite of Poetic Voices'' (Santa Brigada, Spain: Kadle Books, 1994)

Publications

* ''Percentage'', 1979, Tuumba (Berkeley, CA) * ''Under the Bridge'', 1980, This Press (Berkeley, CA) * ''Property'', 1982, Tuumba (Berkeley, CA) * ''The Middle'', 1983, Gaz Press (San Francisco, CA) * ''Vice'', 1986, Potes and Poets (Hartford, CT) * ''Animal Instincts: Prose, Plays, Essays'', 1989, This Press (Berkeley, CA) * ''In the Mode of'', 1992, Zasterle (Tenerife, Spain) * ''Memory Play'', 1994, O Books (Oakland, CA) * ''There Never Was a Rose Without a Thorn'', 1995, City Lights (San Francisco, CA) * ''The Words: After Carl Sandburg's Rootabaga Stories and Jean-Paul Sartre'', 1994, O Books (Oakland, CA) * ''Gardener of Stars'', 2001, Atelos (Berkeley, CA) * ''Baby'', 2005, Adventures in Poetry (New York, NY) *'' Tourjours L’epine Est Sous La Rose'', 2006, Ikko (Paris, France) Translation of ''There Never Was a Rose Without a Thorn''. Translated by Martin Richet * ''Open Box (Improvisations)'', 2007, Belladonna Books, (Brooklyn, NY) * ''Lust for Life: On the Writing of Kathy Acker'', 2006, Verso (New York, NY and London, England): co-edited with Amy Scholder and Avital Ronell. * ''Adorno's Noise'', 2008, Essay Press (Ithaca, NY) * The Wide Road (with Lyn Hejinian), 2011, Belladonna Books (New York, NY) * W--/M--, 2013, SplitLevel Texts (Ann Arbor, MI) * Artifact of Hope, 2017, Ordinance Series, Kenning Editions (Chicago, IL) * L'impromptue de Hannah/Hannah Cut In, 2018. Translated by Abigail Lange, Joca Seria (Paris, France) * Sue in Berlin, 2018, "To" Series, PURH (Rouen, France) * Sue á Berlin, 2018. Translated by Sabine Huynh, "To" Series, PURH (Rouen, France) * A Voice to Perform, 2020, SplitLevel Texts (Alexandria, VA)

Personal life

Harryman is married to the poet Barrett Watten.

References

External links

Book RagsCarla Harryman at EPC
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