[New-Poetry] Carla Harryman's Adorno's Noise

[Ron Silliman]

Adorno’s Noise is a brand new collection of experimental, poetic, and conceptual essays by poet, playwright, novelist, critic & collaborator Carla Harryman, just out from Essay Press.

A member of the Grand Piano collective, Harryman is co-editor of Lust for Life, a volume of essays on the novelist Kathy Acker and has published articles on women's innovative writing by and on poets’ theater and performance. Her poets' theater and interdisciplinary performance works have been presented nationally and internationally. She lives in the Detroit Area and serves on the faculty of the Creative Writing Program at Eastern Michigan University.

Other books by Carla Harryman include the experimental novels Gardener of Stars (Atelos 2001) and The Words: After Carl Sandburg's Rootabaga Stories and Jean-Paul Sartre (O Books, 1999); two volumes of selected writings, There Never Was a Rose without a Thorn (City Lights 1995) and Animal Instincts: Prose, Plays and Essays (This, 1989); and many other collections of poetry, prose, and new genre writings, including Open Box (Belladonna, 2007) and Baby (Adventures in Poetry, 2006).

More information on Adorno’s Noise, including online purchasing, can be found at
http://www.ithaca.edu/faculty/ctaylor/Upcoming/Harryman.htm

Essay Press is edited by Eula Biss, Stephen Cope, and Catherine Taylor. We are writers who do not share a single cohesive aesthetic, but rather a dedication to publishing work that might not otherwise be published. With the help of our board of advisors—which includes writers Ammiel Alcalay, John D'Agata, and Susan Stewart as well as Graywolf Press editor Jeffrey Shotts—we expect to put out an eclectic catalogue that will include a few well-known writers and many new or emerging authors.