John High

a book of unknowing
"Imagine a novel whose setting is dark and indeterminate, whose nameless characters are shadowy, and whose circular plot unfolds timelessly -- and you will be imagining John High's 'A Book of Unknowing.' These powerful poems, whose language rushes past in a torrent of disorienting yet evocative images and sounds, will pull you out of this world and into another, that matters a great deal more, where all that you think you know becomes doubtful." --Norman Fischer

Here
"...High turns elegy to discovery while retaining the truth of sadness, and matches brevity with a generosity that not only grasps, but also loves, the human condition." --Cole Swensen

Talking God's Radio Show, a new novel, by John High
“Soaked in night visions and pierced through by jagged memory, Talking God's Radio Show tells that peculiarly American story in which, as Faulkner once said, ‘The past isn't forgotten, it isn't even the past.’ John High's Virginia backwaters call to mind the feral, hallucinogenic American landscapes of Cormac McCarthy's Child of God, as well as Faulkner's Sanctuary…” --Albert Mobilio

The Desire Notebooks
"[The Desire Notebooks is a] beautiful book; luminous, mysterious, hypnotic."

Bloodline
"...contemplative poetry of the highest order.”

Crossing Centuries:
The New Russian Poetry