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Talking God's Radio Show by John High
ISBN 978-1-933132-44-0   $16.00 US | $17.95 CAN    320 pages

 
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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.  His journey through their underworld of racial and sexual
transgression sparks caustic, brain-searing consequences—we discover, at the soul’s
black bottom, a resolute will to rise up and die, as if both actions were one in the same.
This novel is an lyric ode to the heart’s ineluctable damnation and redemption.    Albert Mobilio


There’s no credibility gap between the lives of John High’s characters and his empathy
for them and his descriptions of their exterior and interior worlds is charged with beauty
and always on target. The red-light district of Richmond, Virginia in the mid-sixties is the
backdrop and High is the ultimate time-traveler—recreating the arcane of a world that
seems long gone but is actually steeped in present day time. Talking God’s Radio
Show is airtight and explosive and belongs on the same shelf as James Ellroy’s My
Dark Places and Leslie Silko’s Ceremony. Devastating and heartbreaking and revelatory
by turn, a virtuoso performance forever in the eye of the storm.    
Lewis Warsh


John High

John High is the author of several books, including Ceremonies,
Sometimes Survival, the lives of thomas-episodes and prayers,
and The Sasha Poems: A Book of Fables. He is the recipient
of numerous awards and fellowships, including three Fulbrights,
two National Endowments and poetry awards from the Witter
Bynner Foundation, Arts International, and Arts Link. The publication
in 1997 (excerpts from) The Sasha Poems met with extraordinary
critical acclaim, here and abroad. He is the editor of Crossing Centuries:
The New Russian Poetry (Talisman House). A founding editor of the Five Fingers Review,
he has also co-translated books of the Russian poets Nina Iskrenko, Aleksei Parshchikov and Ivan Zhdanov.