 This book bridges into Hightower's "Self-evident" with its themes of radical thought and exile.Hightower's poetry reviews often appear in "Fogged Clarity," "The Brooklyn Rail," "The Journal," "Manhattan Review," "Coldfront Magazine," and other national journals.He has taught writing at New York University (Gallatin School), Poets House, Fordham University, Drew University, the Gay Men's Health Crisis, and F.I.T..