Peace/La Paix by Hugh Fox

"The poetry of Hugh Fox suggests a sort of mythical exploration of experience, how a particular moment can serve as a coming together of the eternal ‑‑ cross cultural and cross experiential .... , " from an essay "Hugh Fox ‑‑ More Than a Poet," an interview‑essay by Mahlon Coop that appeared in Potpourri, Prairie Village, Kansas, Vol.8, No.1, 1996.

"Hugh Fox's poems live in two worlds ‑‑ they are both now and then, they speak and are silent, they are print and voice .... these are not poems about poetry, not even about or for poets; they are a search for reality‑as‑possibility, a commitment to conviction. To me they represent the basic style of the most relevant modern poetry, that is, the conviction that language is mean ingful (whatever its source of meaning) because poetry itself gives evidence of its capacity to mean ... Only through words, that most difficult of adversaries, can one mediate ultimate problems, reveal and validate experience, and his do." Intoduction to Fox's collected poetry by Pulitzer Prize Winnter, Russel Nye.

"One of the most active and enlightened minds in the contemporary poetry scene," Poetry Review (Tampa).

"'Buddha revolving between Inner Calm and an opening Spiritual Retina on the impossible Now'is the wisdom from Hugh Fox, poet

visionary extrordinaire ....... Rambunctious Review,, Vol. XVIII, 2001‑2002.

"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.

Title: Peace/La Paix

ISBN: 9781605851815

Author: Hugh Fox

Publisher: Higganum Hill Books

Additional Features:

softcover/50 pages/approx. size 5.5" x 8.5/trade

About the Author:

Hugh Fox was born in Chicago in 1932. He received a M.A. degree in English from Loyola University in Chicago and his Ph.D. in American Literature from the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign). Professor of American Literature from 1958-1968 at Loyola University in Los Angeles. He became a Professor in the Department of American Thought and Language at Michigan State University in 1968 and remained there until he retired in 1999. He received Fulbright Professsorships at the University of Hermosillo in Mexico in 1961, the Instituto Pedagogico and Universidad Católica in Caracas from 1964 to 1966, and at the University of Santa Catarina in Brazil from 1978-1980. He studied Latin American literature at the University of Buenos Aires on an OAS grant and spent a year as an archaeologist in the Atacama Desert in Chile in 1986. He was a founder and Board of Directors member of COSMEP, the International Organization of Independent Publishers, from 1968 until its death in 1996. Editor of Ghost Dance: The International Quarterly of Experimental Poetry from 1968-1995. Latin American editor of Western World Review & North American Review, during the 60's. He has published over 100 books.

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