The Narrow Circle : Penguin Books : 9780143123736 : 0143123734 : 04 Jun 2013 : 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 sk