Product Description: Poetry. "High's work is incandescent; it hardly matters what you call it-story, poem, or as C.D. Wright called it, a 'poem-noir'"-Witz. High's prose is dense and mystical, and he "opens the seams of silence. Released, the voiceless callings and formless beckonings of 'impalpable connection' slide beneath the skin, to enter...read more

Product Description: Abstract, vivid and difficult, this harrowing first novel from PW contributing editor High (The Sasha Poems) combines metaphysical speculation with attention to the landscape and religion of Russia. High's three segments entitled "The Book of Mistranslations," "A Face of Desire" and "The Monks Overlooking the Story"Adescribe the recurrence and survival of human desire under the most adverse conditions...read more

Product Description: The author's poetry is highly praised by, among others, William Dickey, Denise Levertov, and Robert Hazel.