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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 a lyric ode to the heart’s ineluctable damnation and redemption. Albert Mobilio
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 a lyric ode to the heart’s ineluctable damnation and redemption. Albert Mobilio
About the Author
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.
