Steve Benson, EMU’s own Carla Harryman, Lyn Hejinian, Tom Mandel, Ted Pearson, Kit Robinson, and Barrett Watten perform an ensemble reading from The Grand Piano: An Experiment in Collective Autobiography – San Francisco, 1975–1980. Free and open to the public.
Saturday, October 4, 3 PM
The Wendell W. Anderson, Jr., Auditorium
Walter B. Ford II Building
College for Creative Studies
John R & Frederick Douglass Streets, Detroit
A publication party and Grand Piano book display featuring The Grand Piano, part 7; Adorno’s Noise by Carla Harryman; and The Alphabet by Ron Silliman will follow at 5 PM, Cass Cafe, 4620 Cass Avenue, Detroit.
The Grand Piano is an experiment in collective autobiography by ten writers identified with the rise of Language poetry in San Francisco. It takes its name from a coffeehouse at 1607 Haight Street in San Francisco where from 1976 to 1979 the authors participated in a reading and performance series.
For more information, visit the Grand Piano website: http://www.thegrandpiano.org/. Download the flyer here.