The Passionate Mind

-A beautiful, strange work . . . a free, wild book.-

--Dame Iris Murdoch

-If ever there was a book to show that there is more than one way to 'say' anthropology, this is it. The essays are witty, sarcastic, large minded, philosophically informed, inventive. The poems bristle in the right places and ultimately bite at the heart. By eloquently mixing the forms and levels of discourse, Fox has forced a confrontation with the usual linear modes of text construction, interpretation and analytic thought.-

--Ivan Brady, American Anthropologist

-A book bursting with wit, courage, panache, brilliance and defiant originality. The verse is as good as anything in the journals and a hundred times smarter.-

--Frederick Turner, Founders Professor of Humanities, University of Texas, Dallas

-I certainly recognized the sophisticated intelligence, imaginativeness and essential concern...rational statement but with brio; accomplished manipulation of traditional verse forms; realistic reports of contemporary life, but with a symbolic or archetypal dimension; a pervading ebullience.-

--David Perkins, John P. Marquand Professor of English, Harvard University, author of A History of Modern Poetry

-The work recalls Auden at his best, and for me that's praise of the highest order.-

--John Mella, editor, Light: The Quarterly of Light Verse

-A quite extraordinary piece of work. I was astonished by its range of genres and styles and by the masterly use of them. The verse is unusually accomplished and much of it quite moving. The dialogue in 'The Trial of George Washington' is wonderful - crisp and formal, faintly archaic, witty and taut. Fox loves words and hovers over them like Nabokov over a butterfly (or over a word for that matter). It is lovely to find that in a man of science.-

--Robert Storey, Professor of English, Temple University "A beautiful, strange work . . . a free, wild book."

--Dame Iris Murdoch

"If ever there was a book to show that there is more than one way to 'say' anthropology, this is it. The essays are witty, sarcastic, large minded, philosophically informed, inventive. The poems bristle in the right places and ultimately bite at the heart. By eloquently mixing the forms and levels of discourse, Fox has forced a confrontation with the usual linear modes of text construction, interpretation and analytic thought."

--Ivan Brady, American Anthropologist

"A book bursting with wit, courage, panache, brilliance and defiant originality. The verse is as good as anything in the journals and a hundred times smarter."

--Frederick Turner, Founders Professor of Humanities, University of Texas, Dallas

"I certainly recognized the sophisticated intelligence, imaginativeness and essential concern...rational statement but with brio; accomplished manipulation of traditional verse forms; realistic reports of contemporary life, but with a symbolic or archetypal dimension; a pervading ebullience."

--David Perkins, John P. Marquand Professor of English, Harvard University, author of A History of Modern Poetry

"The work recalls Auden at his best, and for me that's praise of the highest order."

--John Mella, editor, Light: The Quarterly of Light Verse

"A quite extraordinary piece of work. I was astonished by its range of genres and styles and by the masterly use of them. The verse is unusually accomplished and much of it quite moving. The dialogue in 'The Trial of George Washington' is wonderful - crisp and formal, faintly archaic, witty and taut. Fox loves words and hovers over them like Nabokov over a butterfly (or over a word for that matter). It is lovely to find that in a man of science."

--Robert Storey, Professor of English, Temple University "A beautiful, strange work . . . a free, wild book."

--Dame Iris Murdoch

"If ever there was a book to show that there is more than one way to 'say' anthropology, this is it. The essays are witty, sarcastic, large minded, philosophically informed, inventive. The poems bristle in the right places and ultimately bite at the heart. By eloquently mixing the forms and levels of discourse, Fox has forced a confrontation with the usual linear modes of text construction, interpretation and analytic thought."

--Ivan Brady, American Anthropologist

"A book bursting with wit, courage, panache, brilliance and defiant originality. The verse is as good as anything in the journals and a hundred times smarter."

--Frederick Turner, Founders Professor of Humanities, University of Texas, Dallas

"I certainly recognized the sophisticated intelligence, imaginativeness and essential concern...rational statement but with brio; accomplished manipulation of traditional verse forms; realistic reports of contemporary life, but with a symbolic or archetypal dimension; a pervading ebullience."

--David Perkins, John P. Marquand Professor of English, Harvard University, author of A History of Modern Poetry

"The work recalls Auden at his best, and for me that's praise of the highest order."

--John Mella, editor, Light: The Quarterly of Light Verse

"A quite extraordinary piece of work. I was astonished by its range of genres and styles and by the masterly use of them. The verse is unusually accomplished and much of it quite moving. The dialogue in 'The Trial of George Washington' is wonderful - crisp and formal, faintly archaic, witty and taut. Fox loves words and hovers over them like Nabokov over a butterfly (or over a word for that matter). It is lovely to find that in a man of science."

--Robert Storey, Professor of English, Temple University "If ever there was a book to show that there is more than one way to 'say' anthropology, this is it."

--Ivan Brady, "American Anthropologist" "A beautiful, strange work... a wild, free book."

--Dame Iris Murdoch