"The sense of the body flowing from an old comfortable posture / to a new exciting yet strange position" is the animating force in Nathan Hoks' dazzling first collection of poems. His fine gradations of observation ("exciting yet strange") turn the reader into a barometer of strong subtleties like those of the weather, that can be minute even as they affect us powerfully. These poems are like great gulps of fresh air.
"The sense of the body flowing from an old comfortable posture / to a new exciting yet strange position" is the animating force in Nathan Hoks' dazzli...
Selected as a winner of the National Poetry Series by Dean Young
John Ashbery calledReveilles, 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...
Selected as a winner of the National Poetry Series by Dean Young
John Ashbery calledReveilles, Nathan Hoks s debut book, a dazz...
