Reveilles

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 realityin 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 poemsincluding meditations on icicles and a listless oboist with no note for greenmanage 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.