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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.
"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.
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Revoir (Paperback)
Hugh Fox
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R438
Discovery Miles 4 380
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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.
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