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Carla Harryman
Writing. Known for her genre-disrupting experimental writings, available in collections such as There Never Was a Rose Without a Thorn (City Lights, 1995), The Words, after Carl Sandburg's Rootabaga Stories and Jean-Paul Sartre (O Books, 1994), Gardener of Stars (Atelos), Baby (Adventures in Poetry, 2005), and the book-length poem Open Box (Belladonna, 2007). Critical writings include essays on innovative performance and gender and postmodern literature. Coedited Lust for Life: On the Writings of Kathy Acker (Verso, 2006). Collaborations include The Grand Piano, an ongoing experiment in autobiography situated between 1975 and 1980 and authored by 10 writers identified with San Francisco language poetry. One of the original innovators of San Francisco Poets Theater; her avant-garde theater and sound-language performance works have been presented in San Francisco, Detroit, New York, Montreal, Auckland, the United Kingdom, Austria, and Germany.
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