FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE!
VARIOUS DEVICES:
SELECTED WRITINGS
BY CARLA HARRYMAN
MOSCOW: POLYPHEM, 2024
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Polyphem, an independent press in Moscow, announces publication of a comprehensive, bilingual edition of the writings of Carla Harryman.
The works, chosen by editor Vladimir Feshchenko, represent the full range of her pioneering genre-disrupting, performative texts—from Percentage (1979) and Under the Bridge (1980) to Cloud Cantata (2020) and Scales for the Living (2023).
Also featured are the complete scripts of her germinal works for San Francisco Poets Theater: “Third Man” (1978); “There Is Nothing Better Than a Theory” (1984); and “Memory Play” (1994).
Excerpts from her dystopian novel Gardener of Stars (2001) and the ludic hybrid text Baby (2005) are included, along with selections from her erotic picaresque, co-authored with Lyn Hejinian, The Wide Road (2011).
The translators are eight innovative poets and scholars: Ruslan Mironov, Evgenia Suslova, Maria Malinovskaya, Galina Yermoshina, Alexander Ulanov, Anna Rodionova, Ekaterina Zakharkiv, and Vladimir Feshchenko.
466 pp., perfect bound, bilingual; cover by Andrei Cherkasov. For the complete Table of Contents, click here.
Publisher’s biographical note
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Carla Harryman is one of the brightest stars of the American “Language” movement.
A poet, playwright, and original essayist all in one, she combines different literary and performance genres in her writing.
Her linguistic dramaturgy is a post-dramatic theater that undertakes a radical experiment in communication.
Each of the author’s works is a kind of language play—not in the sense of a linguistic comedy but as a dramatic production of language itself in space, time, and action.
The selection of Harryman’s writings in translation represent a wide range of books from the late 1970s to recent texts produced during the pandemic years.
Her book is a collection of various devices: poetic forms, narrative contraptions, dramaturgical subterfuges, communicative strategies, and other accoutrements of “performative writing.”
To order:
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Various Devices: Selected Writings will be available from the publisher in Russia (https://t.me/polifempublishing) and at the following bookstores: WordOrder (https://wordorder.ru); Falanster (https://falanster.ru); and Ozon (https://www.ozon.ru).
It can be ordered outside Russia from Interbok.se and shipped from Sweden (see www.interbok.se or write info@interbox.se); review copies and orders can be obtained directly from the author (carla.harryman@gmail.com); see this site for availability.
For more information:
Carla Harryman / carla.harryman@gmail.com
https://www.carlaharryman.com
https://www.emich.edu/english/faculty/c-harryman.php
