{"product_id":"the-narrow-circle-isbn-9780143123736","title":"The 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\u003cb\u003eNathan Hoks\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eReveilles\u003c\/i\u003e, which won Salt Publishing’s Crashaw Prize in 2010. His poems and translations have appeared in \u003ci\u003eCrazyhorse\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLit\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCircumference\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eVerse\u003c\/i\u003e. He is an editor and letterpress printer for Convulsive Editions, and lives with his wife and son in Chicago.","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303524552933,"sku":"NP9780143123736","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780143123736.jpg?v=1767740629","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-narrow-circle-isbn-9780143123736","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}