Carla Harryman
Carla Harryman is the author of twenty-six books of poetry, plays, and essays. Recent books include a volume in Russian and English, Various Devices: Selected Writings (1979-2023), edited by Vladimir Feschenko (2024); Cloud Cantata (2022); the English and French editions Sue in Berlin and Sue à Berlin, trans. Sabine Huynh (2018); and A Voice to Perform: One Opera/Two Plays ( 2020). Her recent performance works feature improvised music and speaking and singing voices and include Scales for the Living Under Duress (The Lab, San Francisco, 2025) and Gardener of Stars, an Opera (Torn Page, New York, 2024).
Cole was thigh-high in gently rushing water heaving bulky rocks out of the Esopus Creek onto the shore that lined her property.
I would not or typically do not separate the urgencies of the present from the qualifying aspects of memory that inflect the “now” with absences and histories or that resound with nonaligned temporalities.