Reveilles
Reveilles by Nathan Hoks is a first edition poetry collection published by Salt in 2010, featuring 66 pages of innovative verse. This work re-imagines a tempered surrealism for the twenty-first century, blending dream-like sequences with elements of reality. Hoks’ poems navigate between the landscapes of dreams and tangible experiences, creating a unique interplay that transforms ordinary moments into reflections on love and existence.
Readers will find a diverse array of poems that are both fiercely witty and wildly imaginative, touching on themes such as the beauty of icicles and the musings of a “listless oboist.” Hoks’ work is characterized by its formal variety and rhetorical questioning, as the poems explore the complexities of sentience and emotional depth. The collection’s blend of deadpan humor and poignant insights invites contemplation, reminding readers of the intricate connections between the sky and the ground.
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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.”
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