Fox, S., 2025.

The Scatological Sons

From the gutters of language and the ghosts of patriarchy rises a fierce, unflinching excavation of the male psyche. In this intimate and irreverent reckoning, artist and writer Sue Fox delivers a lyrical, transgressive work of poetic theory and memoir -- part literary dissection, part anatomical haunting. The Scatological Sons is a channelled text, a darkly erotic and scatological epistle to the broken gods of masculinity. Rimbaud's shadow looms large, guiding Fox through a visceral descent into the bowels of myth, sex, ritual, and shame. Wading through the sacred filth of language, the grotesque becomes holy, and the male body -- so long, a site of aggression and projection -- is rendered tender, tragic, and absurd. What begins as a meditation on the abject becomes a poetic anatomy of sons: lovers, poets, predators, prophets, father-ghosts and filthy martyrs. Fox charts their excretions and excesses, their need to soil the world and their inability to clean themselves of history. Through cut-up, automatic writing, and dreamlike ritual, she raises the question: what might a feminist exorcism of masculinity look like? And what remains of the sacred once the cock has been dethroned? Raucous, sacred, and grotesquely beautiful, The Scatological Sons is a book of devotions for the post-apocalyptic age -- part hymn, part howl, part psychoanalytic autopsy. It belongs on the altar of every artist, witch, mother, and wounded son, trying to make sense of what it means to have inherited this ruin and this apocalyptic earth. Illustrations by Dave Mitchell, publisher of Incunabula Media Books.
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