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Title: Bloodline by John Alexander High ISBN: 1-58498-025-7 Publisher: Talisman Books Pub. Date: January, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95

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Summary: speaking in tongues
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"Reading Ecclesiastes & O dear what can the matter be. A sky populated with migrating pink birds. Such pinkness! "popsickles & gasoline" #10 The Sasha Poems

Jazz riffs and prophecy, fairy tales and dialogues with angels, this poetry has much in common with music and prayer. Images of burnt angels,monasteries, birds, lakes, snow: set in the here and now, in Russia, in America but nowhere in particular. John High's selected writings appeal to the right brain where love and loss and grief are registered as feelings not only symbols.

Nothing is explained. The voice addresses , the child, our sister,Jimmy, Charlie. The voices of poets past, Rilke, Mandelstam, Goethe,Lorca, outside time, echo from across space like a longing for home, the return of angels to their bright place, a touch of mysticism grounded in the senses and the mud of sex. "She reminded me. Dark shore of her shoulders like the muddy bank of nowhere left to run. When she buckled her legs around my waist, I just wanted to die there, let the wind carry our shadows." Sometimes, like the language of children, the words seem pulled out of the subconscious, illogical, birds and moon colliding because itappears that way. Are they parables or fables? "The smoke and fish and living, are they not the same, papa?" A child's voice but not a child's questions. So much of this writing is like a vision of the burning bush,there is no point of reference that says, this is god's voice speaking but
you feel moved by it. How to read these signs?

High parts the curtains of the concrete world to reveal a Mad Hatters vision, a speaking in tongues not always comprehensible, but on rereading,words leap like sparks in a brush fire, illuminating briefly the world he sees, the dead and the living in conversation. A bit like the Little Prince discussing pictures of sheep in boxes or elephants inside of boa constrictors, with grownups. It depends on the construct you bring to it,how you look at it, what you see. This book demands you leave the boundaries behind. Its uniqueness requires fresh eyes, and open heart. It will surprise you.

Jennifer Boire >>