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