A poem series that is quintessential Fox. Although The Year Book covers one year in Michigan, it is augmented by a rich cultural ambience that includes Chicago, Europe in his early twenties, his marriage to a Peruvian poet and yearly trips there, the pre-Columbian ruins in the Andes, his stints in Mexico, Brazil, Buenos Aires, and on from there….very strange, exotic, enriching. Real life, real time in universal cultural ambiences.
“Fox writes the way he talks: a rapid fire stream-of-consciousness, full of anecdotes….and arcane esoteric references from his seventy-five eclectic years,” (Doug Holder, 1/28/2007.)
“…Barriers don’t last long around Hugh Fox. He is the ultimate explorer of the self….Whitman, in Song of Myself, only grazes the surfaces that Fox penetrates.” (Eric Greinke, 2005.)
“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 the essay “Hugh Fox—More Than a Poet,” by Mahlon Coop, 1996.)