John HighJohn High ranks among the most accomplished and respected poets, translators, and editors of his generation. Founding editor of Five Fingers Review and author of THE LIVES OF THOMAS, The Sasha Poems, The Desire Notebooks, BLOODLINE: SELECTED WRITINGS HERE, and A BOOK OF UNKNOWNING, among others, he is one of his generation's foremost translators of contemporary Russian poetry. The principal editor of CROSSING CENTURIES: THE NEW GENERATION IN RUSSIAN POETRY, he is known for his translations of Nina Iskrenko, Ivan Zhdanov, and Alexei Parschikov, among others. A former Fulbright professor at Moscow State Linguistics University, he currently teaches at Long Island University. Read More Read Less