Description
Poetry. "VANISHING ACTS is an astounding, yet oddly casual and unselfconscious, achievement. In a dark land beyond death, a cast of characters—including a one-eyed boy, a mute girl, carnival performers, bicyclists, handless monks, ghost-women, film-makers—wanders inside and outside landscape and language, and through various ancient Chinese religious texts. Sometimes laconic (just a scrawled note left by one character for another) and sometimes an obsessive rush of language barely patched together with ampersands, the passion of this poem nearly overwhelms. Hold onto your hats for this one!"—Norman Fischer
Author Bio
A recipient of four Fulbright Fellowships, John High has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Witter Bynner Foundation, and Arts International. He is a member of the Moscow Club Poetry and a founding editor of Five Fingers Review. Poet, translator, Zen monk—he has written ten books, including the novel THE DESIRE NOTEBOOKS. VANISHING ACTS is the fourth volume in the interconnected series of poetry collections following HERE, A BOOK OF UNKNOWING, and YOU ARE EVERYTHING YOU ARE NOT. He has taught creative writing and literature in Moscow, Istanbul, Hangzhou, and San Francisco, and currently directs the MFA Creative Writing Program at LIU Brooklyn.
Author City: BROOKLYN, NY USA