John High
Poet, translator, novelist, and Zen monk, John High (Ninso) has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for Humanities, as well as four Fulbrights. He is the author of more than a dozen books, including Scrolls of a Temple Sweeper (Wet Cement Press). His co-translation of Mandelstam’s The Voronezh Notebooks is forthcoming from Wesleyan University Press. He lives in Lisbon.
Poem from The Voronezh Notebooks by Osip Mandelstam, translated from the Russian by John High and Matvei Yankelevich.
John High is the author of numerous books. His poems have most recently appeared in Poems by Sunday, Poetry Northwest, Brooklyn Paramount, and New American Writing; his translations of Osip Mandelstam have appeared in The Nation, Denver Quarterly, Pen America, and Poetry, among others. The poems printed here are from a new collection from Talisman House, you are everything you are not (the third book in a trilogy). He teaches in the MFA Creative Writing Program at LIU, Brooklyn.