Full Description
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."
Contents
Contents
Points
Inside the Body
Primer
Bread without Crust
Navigator
Islands
Transmissions
Greeting the Severed Music
Fuck the Cookies
Buffer Zones
Light Air
Symptom A
The Cicatrix
Poem
To His Mistress Going to Bed
Postscript
Condensation
Three Days in Omaha
Echo Train
Radio Station
New Farmhand
Somnambulist
What Are You Taking to the Potluck?
Anonymous Master
House Party
The Helping Hand
Coda
Landscape
Another Posture
Book of Clouds
Foghorn
Am I a Deck of Cards?
Surface Cloud
Easy Listening
Aroma Therapy
Inside Out
Vanishing Point
Hanging the Whale
The Sam Plan
Burrito
Mouth of Clouds
Wool
Footprints
Delete That
The Wrong Side of Waking
Day of Capes
Holding Patterns
Scrapbook
