If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. The author of more than ten books in a range of genres as well as numerous performance works, Carla Harryman's recent publications include Open Box (Belladonna, 2007), Baby (Adventures in Poetry, 2006), Toujours l'epine est sous la rose (Ikko, 2006: tr. Martin Richet), and Gardener of Stars (Atelos, 2001). A collection of conceptual essays, Adorno's Noise, is forthcoming from Essay Press this spring. Recent performance pieces in Detroit, Montreal, Germany and Austria have featured bilingual choral improvisation and sound manipulation. She is also a participant in The Grand Piano collaboration, a ten-volume experiment in collective autobiography by ten writers originally identified with Language Poetry in the San Francisco Bay Area. Since her 1995 move out of the Bay Area, she has lived in Detroit. She currently teaches at Wayne State University, Naropa Institute, and the Bard College Milton Avery School of the Arts.