{"title":"Nathan Hoks","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"narrow-circle","title":"Narrow Circle","description":"\u003cb\u003eSelected as a winner of the National Poetry Series by Dean Young\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohn Ashbery called \u003ci\u003eReveilles\u003c\/i\u003e, 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, \u003ci\u003eThe Narrow Circle\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nathan Hoks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43793301864490,"sku":"9780143123736","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/0891\/6522\/files\/narrow-circle-4787723.jpg?v=1762151313"},{"product_id":"reveilles","title":"Reveilles","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWith courtly delicacy and humility belied by subtly extreme declarations and refreshingly diverse means, Nathan Hoks' poems can be one moment deceptively plain-spoken, the next broadcasting from a typhoon. Reveilles may wake us 'into some small nebula, ' but it would make of our minds and hearts comets and red giants.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nathan Hoks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43793301930026,"sku":"9781844717927","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/0891\/6522\/files\/reveilles-7802141.jpg?v=1762151312"},{"product_id":"moony-days-of-being","title":"Moony Days of Being","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePoems that inhabit a world of flammable metaphors and spiritual fog machines, delivering poems that are part elegy, part glitch, part lunar broadcast.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMoony Days of Being\u003c\/i\u003e, Nathan Hoks' fourth collection of poetry, is a surreal and tender reckoning with absurdity, memory, and the unravelings of daily life. These odes, self-portraits, and dedicatory poems fuse humor with emotional urgency as they wrestle with parenthood, intimate loss, and ecological and political despair. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book opens in a place of existential estrangement and gradually adopts an elegiac and relational tone, speaking to family, poets, and imagined interlocutors with uncertainty and longing. The title poem, a cento composed of lines from the book, weaves refrains from earlier pieces into a coda. Interspersed throughout the book are quatrains of found images captioned by lines from the poems, an intermedia form that presents a playful visual index of the book's motifs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHok's poems resist tidy epiphany. Instead, they zigzag and pulse with associative energy--a lyricism that questions its own coherence while inviting the reader into resonant, affective spaces. With homages to influences like Vallejo, Plath, and O'Hara, \u003ci\u003eMoony Days of Being\u003c\/i\u003e is as much a book of grief and exhaustion as it is a performance of loopy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nathan Hoks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44186090930218,"sku":"9781965154137","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/0891\/6522\/files\/moony-days-of-being-9881992.jpg?v=1774142048"}],"url":"https:\/\/thepoetryshop.com\/collections\/nathan-hoks.oembed","provider":"The Poetry Shop LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}