{ "item_title" : "The Narrow Circle", "item_author" : [" Nathan Hoks "], "item_description" : "Selected as a winner of the National Poetry Series by Dean YoungJohn 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.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers1.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/0/14/312/373/0143123734_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "24.00", "online_price" : "24.00", "our_price" : "24.00", "club_price" : "24.00", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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