{"product_id":"9781101613092","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","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47120380526832,"sku":"9781101613092","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781101613092_p0.jpg?v=1763689077","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781101613092","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}