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The Narrow Circle

Nathan Hoks

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English
Penguin USA
04 June 2013
Series: Penguin Poets
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 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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Imprint:   Penguin USA
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 228mm,  Width: 152mm,  Spine: 7mm
Weight:   127g
ISBN:   9780143123736
ISBN 10:   0143123734
Series:   Penguin Poets
Pages:   96
Publication Date:  
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Nathan Hoks is the author of Reveilles, which won Salt Publishing's Crashaw Prize in 2010. His poems and translations have appeared in Crazyhorse, Lit, Circumference, and Verse. He is an editor and letterpress printer for Convulsive Editions, and lives with his wife and son in Chicago.

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