Readers will discover within these pages, why Ragan Fox is among the leading queer performance poets in the nation. This literary debut includes subtle and nuanced exercises that interrogate gender, violence, sexuality, and heteronormativity. Heterophobia is accessible, riotously funny, heart-breaking, and undeniably real.
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... packed with passionate introspection about and investigation of queer life, queer sex, and queer essence. --Books to Watch Out For
Fox is willing to sometimes hit below the belt, get raunchy, and flame out. --Echo Magazine
Fox is willing to sometimes hit below the belt, get raunchy, and flame out. --Echo Magazine
About the Author
Ragan Fox is an assistant professor of communication at California Statue University, Long Beach. Fox's other creative accomplishments include his first book Heterophobia, the Fox and the City podcast, which was heard weekly on Sirius radio, and several academic essays that have been featured in Text and Performance Quarterly, the Journal of Homosexuality, Theatre Topics, and Qualitative Inquiry. He currently resides in West Hollywood with his dog Bella.
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Poems that challenge, excite, demand...,
This review is from: Heterophobia (Paperback)
I heard about Ragan Fox actually through LiveJournal.com. After reading some of his posts and thinking he had a pretty witty attitude (not quite Oscar Wildean, more like the savvy street hustler Wilde just tricked with), I decided to buy his book and see what all his fuss was about.
I'm glad I did. His poems range in emotion from angry to somber to needy but they all manage to convey his feelings through the words, the page, the book and into the mood of the reader. I was moved often and never bored. Some pieces are especially funny and poke fun at popular culture and politics. A great book. I wish I could hear the poems performed.
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Heterophobia Is Fearless.,
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Ragan Fox has a distinct style, and thankfully, it's an enjoyable one. Syncopation and staccato, and I didn't think it was possible, but he personifies people. Does that make sense? A lot of authors, especially poets, objectify their characters, but Ragan dredges them out from the muck and makes them relatable, giving them enough depth to psychoanalyze. It's nice how he introduced the his metaphors with a drumroll and then brings them home with a sassy punchline, regardless of what emotion his theme is built on, and he runs the gamut instead of leaving the reader stranded on a monochromatic plateau.
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I have been a big fan of Ragan's via his podcast Fox and The City - check it out on Itunes - for many of his earlier shows he includes poems in this book and as the other reviewer states - hearing it performed makes the poems come alive with emotion. Great book - get it and see for yourself.
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