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The Narrow Circle

The Narrow Circle

Hoks, Nathan

Paperback

Series: Penguin Poets

Fiction AnthologiesGeneral Poetry

ISBN10: 0143123734
ISBN13: 9780143123736
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: Jun 4 2013
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.70
Language: English
Selected as a winner of the National Poetry Series by Dean Young

John Ashbery called Reveilles, Nathan Hoks's debut book, a dazzling collection and Hoks a poet whose fine gradations of observation turn the reader into a barometer of strong subtleties like those of the weather, that can be minute even as they affect us powerfully. The poems in Hoks's new book, The Narrow Circle, perform a similar magic. In associative lyrics and fabulist prose, Hoks explores inner and outer experiences. The poems frequently focus on the body as a membrane where everything becomes inside-out--where the face disperses with angels of teeth and loam, where sky comes out of the mouth, where a giant green worm burrows a hole in the head, and where the heart is a vestibule that cannot be closed. Suites of pictures within the text further delineate this inward-outward pull, offering visualizations of interior voices and sketches of exterior shadows.

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