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HUGH FOX
Seventy-seven years totally soaked in Torahs,
New Testaments, Korans, Upanishads, Popul
Vuhs, Moonlight Sonatas and not-so-sleeping
beauties from age five on, then marriage to a
Peruvian, an immersion in ancient Peruvian,
Bolivian, Chilean, Mexican, Amazonian ruins,
four books published on ancient
pre-Columbian theology/world-viewing....
watching the evening news (especially BBC)
every night, travelling to Brazil every few
months, still fathering and grand-fathering,
ex-husbanding,supported by/married to a
Brazilian M.D. who makes a fortune every
month, trying to make sense out of the
whole Tsunami, earthquake, 80 billion
galaxy, Chicago kid-murders, pocket-bombs,
rocket-nuke showing off.....ending up simply
staring out the borning, thriving, dying,
reborning
window.
The Hugh Fox Issue
It’s the Hugh Fox Issue
The Hugh Fox Issue
Yeah
“I am the younger brother of
Jesus-Moses, born on Sinai
at the break of winter dusk,
and I have come back to reborn
the world!”
“Not reborn, re-create”
I created language:
BORN
YLD
NASCER
PHUL-KARI, and.....”
“First step, total anihilation,
step two Adam II from the
mouth of Zootropic I Walking
Stick that eats brainless,
feel-less, painless LEAVES.”
Hugh Fox Hugh Fox Hugh Fox Hugh Fox
Hugh Fox Hugh Fox Hugh Fox Hugh Fox
Much too serious in Mediterranean
Veg-Out, Calypso Grilled Chicken,
Chocolate Cheese Cake heaven,
twenty-four, dietician, storm weather
report but the sun blazes out across
the lead sky, eternity-skull in fancy
burial-world, how about a now that
just says
(Java Chip)
NOW.
Hugh Fox Hugh Fox Hugh Fox Hugh Fox
Reinventing snowbird resurrection
for a moment last night as I
four AM slid into the local
hill-gully RIPT trashbox sense of
curtain-down not-to-be
foreverness.
H
U
G
H
F
O
X
Dozing-off after the hot chocolate,
Dream One, firing square in the dark,
I can’t see the faces of the fire-ers,
then hanging in the rec room from
one of the beams, wearing my antique
grey tweed Outer Hebrides suit-coat
and cap, that fall as my neck snaps,
then in the control room on this
cargo-ship off the Somalian coast,
pirates in a dinghy starting to shoot,
I rev up the engine, turn it into a
speed boat, then eating arsenic mangos
in the Amazon, down I go, off the
sofa in the indoor tree house in
Chelsea, Beatrice (2) trying to swing
on the plastic rings hanging from the
purple bars,not quite making it as the
little boy next to me, playing with a toy
railroad car and wooden tracks, says
“I’m Henry,” points to a little blonde
girl on a swing, “That’s Yvette...we’re
from Montreal.”
HUGHFOXHUGHFOXHUGHFOXHUGHFOX
HUGHFOXHUGHFOXHUGHFOXHUGHFOX
DE FALLA’S THREE CORNERED HAT
God-galaxies
and coronary
knee-cartilege
arteries
non three-cornered
glissando
violin
hats.
all poems ©Hugh Fox
WHO’S WHO
Born in Chicago, 1932, polio at age 5, cured with new pre-Saulk experimental medicine, childhood immersed in opera, violin, piano, musical composition, art by his ex-violinist-turned-M.D. father, and frustrated actress mother, then 3 years of pre-med and a year of Medicine, dropped out of medical school and got a B.S. (Hum.) and M.A.(English) from Loyola U.in Chicago, first trip to Paris, London, Florence, Rome, Amsterdam, etc., then a Ph.D.in American Literature from the U. of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign).Married Peruvian poet Lucia Ungaro de Zevallos. Prof. of American Literature, Loyola University in Los Angeles (now Loyola Marymount University), 1958-1968,Professor in the Department of American Thought and Language, Michigan State University (1968-1999). Now retired, Professor Emeritus. Fulbright Professor of American Studies/Literature, U. of Hermosillo, Mexico, 1961, U. Católica and Institúto Pedagógico, Caracas, 1964-1966, U. of Florianópolis, Brazil, 1978-1980. Married Maria Bernadete Costa M.D. 1 yr. studying Lt. Am. culture at Mendoza Foundation (Caracas) with Mariano Picon-Salas. Organization of American States Grant to study Latin American Studies/Argentinian Literature, U. of Buenos Aires, 1971. John Carter Brown Library Fellowship, Brown U., 1968 (Studies in sixteenth and seventeenth century Spanish economics and avant-garde literature). OAS grant as archaeologist, Atacama Desert, Chile, 1986.Lectures in Spain and Portugal 1975-’76. 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, 1968-1995. Latin American editor of Western World Review & North American Review, during 60’s. Former contributing reviewer on Smith/ Pulpsmith, Choice etc. currently contributing reviewer to SPR and SMR.105 books published, the most recent Defiance (Higganum Hill Press, 2007) (poetry), Finalmente/Finally (Solo Press, 2007) (poetry), Opening the Door to French Film (World Audience, 2007) , Rediscovering America (World Audience, 2009) (archaeology), Alex (poetry chapbook, Rubicon Press), Peace/LaPaix (Higganum Hill,2008, another poetry chapbook), The Collected Poetry (World Audience, 2008...540 pages), Icehouse & The Thirteen Keys to Talmud (Crossing Chaos Press in London, Ontario. A novella and sci fi novel, 2009), Revoir (s.stories, All Things that Matter Press, 2009). Total bibliography (including published poems, essays, plays, stories, reviews, etc. over a hundred pages long.
HUGH
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'chi chi' the screaming went. 'write this wants you to find hugh fox and interview him'. nonny toocomplete is handing me the phone with the kind of sway that can only suggest she is eager to advance my career. they had already hung up on the other end but i knew that if they had come to me it was because the aliens had crashed while trying to land. hugh fox, eh? the hugh fox bibliography alone is 108 microsoft word pages in helvetica 12. he shouldn't be too hard to find. but he wasn't at home so i quit. write this called back and told me i was on a deadline. i didn't know what to do so i went to utah and asked around. it was iktomi who put me onto fox originally. not iktomi himself but one of his agents. i could tell by the point of his bangs from the temples inward as an arrow pointing at his nose. south. so south i went.
i was sitting along the side of the road in Veracruz-Llave having lunch and noticed an old woman. i call her old but she wasn't that old.
HUGH FOX
"this is my bedroom..."
Hugh Fox
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