High on America: An interview with Czechoslovak -American poet James Ragan
High on America: An interview with Czechoslovak -American poet James Ragan

Summary/Abstract: Trouvère to a generation, Hollywood screenwriter, distinguished professor and amongst the ‘100 coolest people in Los Angeles,’ James Ragan has read for six Heads of State, with Bob Dylan, and to a standing ovation from 100,000 people in the USSR. Not a politician, but his politics have long played a role in both his poetry and his life. From protests in the 60s to reading for the Supreme Soviet and at the United Nations, Ragan has always been an astute social commentator and chronicler through his work. His most recent anthology of poems “Too Long Solitude” was published in 2009 by the University of Oklahoma Press. A summer Prague resident, he talks about President Havel, the current state of America, the survival of the Arts and other things dear to him, in this expansive interview with Hrishabh Sandilya.

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