In this Book
- Honest Engine
- Book
- 2015
- Published by: University of Georgia Press
summary
In this his fourth collection, award-winning poet Kyle Dargan examines the mechanics of the heart and mind as they are weathered by loss. Following a spate of deaths among family and friends, Dargan chooses to present not color-negative elegies but self-portraits that capture what of these departed figures remains within him. Amid this processing of mortality, it becomes clear that he has arrived at a turning point as a writer and a man.
As the title suggests, Dargan aspires toward an unflinching honesty. These poems do not purport to possess life’s answers or seek to employ language to mask what they do not know. Dargan confesses as a means of reaching out to the nomadic human soul and inviting it to accompany him on a walk toward the unknown.
As the title suggests, Dargan aspires toward an unflinching honesty. These poems do not purport to possess life’s answers or seek to employ language to mask what they do not know. Dargan confesses as a means of reaching out to the nomadic human soul and inviting it to accompany him on a walk toward the unknown.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- p. xi
- Cycle One: Equity
- State of the Union
- pp. 3-4
- Cormac McCarthy as Translation
- pp. 10-11
- A House Divided
- pp. 12-13
- “We/Die Soon”
- pp. 16-18
- Cycle Two: Jagged Serenade
- Song of the Women and Children
- pp. 21-22
- Beastheart
- pp. 25-26
- Capture Myopathy
- pp. 27-28
- There Is No Power in Sex
- pp. 29-30
- Dirge in April
- p. 34
- Song of the Men
- p. 35
- Cycle Three: Conversations with Sleep
- Cycle Four: Eschatology
- It Is Always Dark in Egypt
- pp. 47-48
- The Robots Are Coming
- pp. 50-51
- Fool’s Therapy
- pp. 52-53
- Exit Season
- p. 55
- Words for the Departed
- pp. 56-57
- Cycle Five: the Mediocrity Principle
- Points of Contact
- p. 65
- Call and Response
- p. 66
- Dear Religion
- p. 69
- Man on an Iron Shore
- pp. 70-71
- Art Project
- pp. 72-73
- None of Us Saints
- p. 75
- Unless Marooned
- p. 76
- Pale Blue Dot
- pp. 77-78
Additional Information
ISBN
9780820348315
Related ISBN(s)
9780820347288
MARC Record
OCLC
903318233
Pages
96
Launched on MUSE
2015-02-24
Language
English
Open Access
No