The Narrow Circle (Penguin Poets)($21.66Value)

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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. 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. Used Book in Good Condition