Connie Fox
Perfectbound Paperback, ISBN: 0-9740868-9-4, 72 pgs., $20.00

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In these poems, Connie Fox explores the ancient theology/philosophy of the Great Goddess world-view where the Earth itself is literally the Earth Mother and everything is dominated by a sense of female sexuality/fertility.  The Dream of the Black Topaz Chamber, Oma, and Nachthymnen highlight this primordial femininity with lush imagery and rich language.  10 ¹⁷⁰ and Babicka link the past with the present and provide a glimpse into Connie’s experiences, sensuality and awareness of the life-death cycle.   This increased awareness of death and aloneness permeates the imagery in Our Lady Of Laussel and Entre Nous.  Fox identifies and identifies with the history/ anthropology/ philosophy of female sexuality and portrays it with courage, sensitivity, and intelligence.  This poetry is a kind of Jungian-Freudian Id-history of Connie’s life and relationships from childhood to adulthood.

“If Walt Whitman had been a woman, all of nature would have been reconfigured to a different time zone and place. And it’s Whitman who this free verse of gorgeous and engorging poetry reminds me of most. I love this book.”            -Lo Galluccio in The Cambridge Alewife

“ …the writing is a hypnotic confessional flow filled with wise, true psychobabble and real-life folks…Connie Fox is like an old woman rattling and knitting, only she uses guts instead of yarn.”                               -Ken Sutherland in Mockreviewsz