Who are the Enigmatic Polygeneration? They were christened by Tom Bradley in chapter four of Put It Down in a Book, as follows: Digital connectivity has rendered physical locality irrelevant and made polyversality the new thing . . . Once space has been erased by the miracle of email, so has time, in terms of its effects on the human frame . . . In a creation where particles can spookily act upon each other at a distance of quadrillions of light years, the Seven Ages of Man are as days in the week, and a generation can span an open-ended number of decades . . . I'll invent a name that's doubly apt, as these writers produce electricity as well as useful heat.

The Dream of the Black Topaze Chamber shows Hugh Fox at his most sublime. With moments of bard-like inspiration he is able to explore the subtle underpinnings of relationships, the minute unspoken thought-flashes between friends, and the mute electricity of shared moments as he unfolds the story of Magda, Nona and Bernadette - three women opting out of the conventions of life and love to create their own sensual world on the fringes of the Brazilian jungle, a life which suspends desire, imagination and passion through a silky black dreamland of heightened reality. Fox moves from the intimate to the universal seamlessly, where inert trivialities can explode into a political treatise or a sublime poetic reflection within a single breath. The Black Topaze Chamber becomes the hub of isolated souls finding some last spiritual union through the open eroticism of their bodies. What results is a lyrical novel of ecstatic sexual and sensual metamorphosis rendered through a poetic alchemy of Brazilian gemstones.

"What I've finally come to is to simply live inside mystery, the inexplicable, the impossible-to-be-explained, an impossible-to-exist me living inside an impossible-to-exist universe." -Hugh Fox Underground literary legend, Hugh Fox, offers a candid view of Life, his own life, and the interactions of the lives of others who floated in and out of his personal experiential sphere of the universe in his brief yet concise memoir, Who, Me? Fox invites the reader into a life so full-from his mother dressing him up in women's clothing to his father coercing him into medical school; his search for belonging in the "families" of academia, publishing, beatniks and hipsters, Latin America, transsexuals, Judaism, and his own progeny; and the seemingly-glamorous whirlwind world of the arts and culture-that it leaves little else to be desired. Originally from Chicago, Fox studied culture intensely and traveled widely becoming thoroughly Latinized by early adulthood. Much of Fox's life was shaped by his international interests-from his publishing and academic careers to his personal tastes and selection in women-which factored largely into his career successes and personal adventures. Never one to be content with the average or mundane, Fox keeps the pace moving with one exciting revelation or humorously self-interested remark after another. The picture of self-awareness-and -actualization?-Fox's question of Who, Me? has not so much to do with the author/poet/scholar he's become as it does with how he evolved into this multifaceted character of his own creation.

"Through a Glass Darkly" contains 22 short stories by the legendary author and poet Hugh Fox: Through a Glass Darkly St. Martin and the Beggar Ghouls Looking For Spring Wind April and January St. Julie and the Bullet Aunt Fern's Diary Ca Sufit/ That's Enough Chips Survival Vishnu's Dream Else Was Who? The Gates of Satori Survival Through the Wall Hope In Excelsius Ice Cream / I Scream Jean Anne Praise for Hugh Fox: Bill Ryan in The Unborn Book: "Hugh Fox is the Paul Bunyan of American Letters, part myth, part monster, and, myself-as-subject, a magnificent non-stop storyteller." "Hugh Fox...is considered an icon in the small press." (Sandy Raschke, in a review of The Last Summer, in Calliope, January-February, 1996). "The thoughts and words of Hugh Fox, will cause the reader's mind to pause, slow down, expand, ponder for himself/herself, perhaps wander along un-imagined-before avenues, and down dusty lanes. What more could any sentient author want? .....you will certainly not be the same as before....Kudos are in the wind," review by Joyce Metzger of Hugh Fox: The Greatest Hits, Pudding House Publications, 2003, published on Ibbetson Street Internet Review, January 29, 2003. "Hugh B. Fox is the most distinguished man of alternative letters of our time," Richard Kostelanetz, in a review of The Book of Ancient Revelations (2004). In Small Press Review, Jan.-Feb.2005.

Immortal Jaguar is Hugh Fox's account of his experiences with the inner worlds and ancient powers unleashed by his use of traditional South American spiritual hallucinogenics. After consuming psychoactive plants in Peru he is gripped by visionary experiences and finds the dazzling magical world of the Immortals opening up, a whirl of ancient knowledge pouring through his consciousness. On his return to academic life in the US he finds that having a shamanic gift which he is unable to switch off is something of a dangerous liability. Part memoir, part archaeology, this fusion of visions and ideas into fictional narrative is among the most excitingly readable presentations of the spiritual underworld of the Andes and its expression through sacred hallucinogens. The vision extends outward across the ancient world through language and legend, all leading to a voyage to the house of the Sun-King - Tiawanaku in Bolivia. Fox, a major authority on the Pre-Columbian Americas, and a true visionary to boot, makes a compelling case for the connection of disparate myths and cultures around the world in deepest antiquity.

Visionary poet and archeologist Hugh Fox excavates the fragile human psyche and its need for spiritual belonging in his novel Depths and Dragons. The reader will be swept along on a cosmopolitan excursion that skirts variant cultural scapes and languages as it lurches toward some unknown existential destination. The story is told evocatively through a clever synthesis of the tragi-comic and the author's kaleidoscopic stream of consciousness style. Fox is a consummate master of inner monologues that teeter somewhere between the conscious and subconscious without ever fully yielding to either. The aptly named Miriam must undergo a journey of violent displacement between the worlds of Jew and gentile, rabbi and priest, orthodoxy and heresy. Along the way she is made to pay the ultimate price of familial sacrifice, degenerative diaspora, and the loss of her spiritual moorings. The novel battles states of inner and outer terrorism, from physical death to an exalted denial of the flesh, but all the while retaining precious wit and jocularity. The twists and turns of this self-pilgrimage lead to a surprising outcome, and one that will be well worth sharing.

A collection of short stories that deal with life, death, the esoteric, human nature, the mundane and the world-at-large. Hugh Fox at his finest, and perhaps his last.

Secrets revealed on why Jewish people are resilient, highly motivated, and persistent Internationally renowned professor and a research psychologist brilliantly portray a study of human ambition in Secrets of Jewish Success. Professor Hugh Fox presents a compelling example of how adoration of torah, family affection, heritage of tribal wisdom, and a winning formula have inspired centuries of American and European Jews to reach the pinnacle of their careers. Together with Dr. Doug Ruben's formulas for beating the trap of inferiority and marital/partner discord, the Secrets offer a fresh perspective on why Jewish people overcome lifelong obstacles with impeccable resilience. Secrets of Jewish Success is more than history. Astounding evidence from Professor's Fox European travels an adult experience mark his conclusions on what makes Jewish people persevere. Dr. Ruben's empirically-based advice solidifies the methods for a reassuring and personally pleasing self-discovery.