bSelected as a winner of the National Poetry Series by Dean YoungbpppJohn Ashbery callediReveillesi, 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, iThe Narrow Circlei, 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.p