A celebration for the release of
Nathan Hok's poetry collection The Narrow Circle
Nathan Hok's poetry collection The Narrow Circle
SATURDAY, JULY 20th
7pm at the Book Cellar
4736 N. Lincoln Avenue
Readings by:
*Nate Hoks
*Catherine Theis
*Jennifer Karmin in a live collaboration with Toby Altman & Joel Craig
*Nate Hoks
*Catherine Theis
*Jennifer Karmin in a live collaboration with Toby Altman & Joel Craig
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The Narrow Circle,
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.
