MENU

Author: Carla Harryman

Carla Harryman works in interdisciplinary performance, poetry, and prose. She has authored twenty-four books including ANIMAL INSTINCTS: PROSE, PLAYS, ESSAYS (This Press, 1989), GARDENER OF STARS: A NOVEL (Atelos, 2001), ADORNO'S NOISE (Essay Press, 2008), and the two-volume SUE IN BERLIN and Sue á Berlin with French translation by Sabine Huyn (Presses Universitaires de Rouen, 2017). Her performances have been presented internationally, including at Documenta 12 and Music Unlimited in Wells, Austria. She serves on the faculty of Eastern Michigan University, where she teaches in an interdisciplinary creative writing program.

A Voice to Perform: One Opera / Two Plays
Add to Shopping Cart 9780999570128
PAPERBACK $16.00 7/1/2020

A Voice to Perform: One Opera / Two Plays

SplitLevel Texts

Poetry. Drama. A VOICE TO PERFORM is:HANNAH CUT IN: Assembled in time-bound segments, each derived from the idea of interruption in the writings of Hannah Arendt, this play was created for a Poets Theater event at the University Art Museum, Berkeley...

Learn More...

Adorno's Noise
Add to Shopping Cart 9780979118944
PAPERBACK $14.95 11/1/2008

Adorno's Noise

Essay Press

Cultural Writing. Essays. ADORNO'S NOISE is a collection of experimental, poetic, and conceptual essays that "once again proves how necessary an encounter with [Harryman's] writing has become for us today" (Avital Ronell). ADORNO'S NOISE takes a stu...

Learn More...

ANIMAL INSTINCTS
Add to Shopping Cart 0935074287
CLOTH $32.00 1/1/1989

ANIMAL INSTINCTS

This

Animal Instincts
Add to Shopping Cart 0935074279
PAPERBACK $18.00 11/1/1989

Animal Instincts

This Press

Fiction. An array of Harryman's writing, including poetry, prose, plays, and essays. Printed in an edition of 1,000 copies, of which twenty-six are lettered A-Z and signed by the author.

Learn More...

Cloud Cantata
Add to Shopping Cart 9781915341037
PAPERBACK $18.00 6/10/2022

Cloud Cantata

Pamenar Press

“Carla Harryman’s canny CLOUD CANTATA puts before us a set of inexhaustible, unhurried conversational moments into which diverse quotidian and increasingly pressing topics arrive. Perhaps the moments are sequential—it seems to be morning, though 'mo...

Learn More...

Gardener of Stars
Add to Shopping Cart 1891190105
PAPERBACK $12.95 10/11/2001

Gardener of Stars

Atelos

Fiction. Carla Harryman describes GARDENER OF STARS as "an experimental novel that explores the paradise and wastelands of utopian desire." The book offers a mythic history of a post-historical city situated in a garden landscape whose inhabitants a...

Learn More...

OPEN BOX (IMPROVISATIONS)
Add to Shopping Cart 9780976485735
PAPERBACK $12.00 5/1/2007

OPEN BOX (IMPROVISATIONS)

Belladonna*

Poetry. OPEN BOX (IMPROVISATIONS) is the newest book from prolific poet Carla Harryman. "GRNN alert just in--Joseph Cornell is doing the can-can over the delicious debris organization in Harryman's OPEN BOX. This dance of demi-characters--half half,...

Learn More...

Sue in Berlin
Add to Shopping Cart 9791024008196
PAPERBACK $18.60 2/20/2018

Sue in Berlin

Presses Universitaires de Rouen

Poetry. Drama. Performance Studies. Carla Harryman's SUE IN BERLIN is a collection of six genre blending pieces of poetry and performance that are informed in varying degree by musical, verbal, and physical improvisation. Composed between 2001 and 2...

Learn More...

W-/M-
Add to Shopping Cart 9780985811129
PAPERBACK $12.00 9/15/2013

W-/M-

SplitLevel Texts

Poetry. "In this pair of wry, dark, brilliant books, we hear tell of domestic partnerships with a shifting array of W and M. Women and Men? Names multiply, genders reverse, and those initials, flipped, transform into one another. I suspect M could r...

Learn More...

The Words: After Carl Sandburg's Rootabaga Stories and Jean-Paul Sartre
Add to Shopping Cart 1882022394
PAPERBACK $12.00 9/1/1999

The Words: After Carl Sandburg's Rootabaga Stories and Jean-Paul Sartre

O Books

Fiction. "In THE WORDS, Harryman playfully examines the family, the suburbs, daily life, the position of woman, while boldly undermining notions about character and plot. There's a ferocity to her wit, a cunning to her deconstructions—and always a d...

Learn More...

 
Sign up for SPD e-newsletters