Reveilles: (Salt Modern Poets)
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Reveilles: (Salt Modern Poets)

Reveilles: (Salt Modern Poets)

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Nathan Hoks (Author)  

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Reveilles, Nathan Hoks' first collection of poems, re-imagines a tempered surrealism for the twenty-first century. Hoks combines dream-like sequences with flashes of reality-in fact, rather than escaping the world for the rich pleasures of dreams, Hoks' poems often move from the landscape of dreams into a beautiful reality. Lovely and love-struck, these fiercely witty and wildly imaginative poems-including meditations on icicles and a "listless oboist" with "no note for green"-manage to transform into love poems before our eyes. Formally various and rhetorically questioning, Hoks' restless, death-tinged poems keep asking, "Why do I suddenly feel so sentient?". Hoks' speakers "like to walk / behind these prop-like thoughts" only to recognize they will soon become "the up-and-coming moss." Fusing deadpan humor with subtle emotional registers, the "laughing angel" in this book reminds us: "The sky holds nothing to the ground." No
Nathan Hoks has published poems and translations in Lit, Verse, Crazyhorse, Circumference, and many other journals. He is the author of the chapbook Birds Mistaken as Wind (Rhyming Orange Press), and the translator of Arctic Poems, a collection of Vicente Huidobro's poetry forthcoming from Toad Press. A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, he lives in Somerville, Massachusetts. D; D;
  • Contributor: Nathan Hoks
  • Imprint: Salt Publishing
  • ISBN13: 9781844717927
  • Number of Pages: 80
  • Packaged Dimensions: 140x216x5mm
  • Format: Paperback
  • Publisher: Salt Publishing
  • Release Date: 2010-11-01
  • Series: Salt Modern Poets
  • Binding: Paperback / softback
  • Biography: Nathan Hoks has published poems and translations in Lit, Verse, Crazyhorse, Circumference, and many other journals. He is the author of the chapbook Birds Mistaken as Wind (Rhyming Orange Press), and the translator of Arctic Poems, a collection of Vicente Huidobro's poetry forthcoming from Toad Press. A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, he lives in Somerville, Massachusetts. D; D;

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