Honest Engine
Description
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.
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- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Within the Break: An Author's Note
- Acknowledgments
- Cycle One: Equity
- State of the Union
- Ownership
- China Syndrome or Slow Ride from Logan to the Heights
- O, Ghost
- States May Sing Their Songs of Praise
- Cormac McCarthy as Translation
- A House Divided
- Two Years from Retirement, My Neighbor Contemplates Canada
- "We / Die Soon"
- Cycle Two: Jagged Serenade
- Song of the Women and Children
- Suprematist Sweet Nothings
- O, Bride
- Beastheart
- Capture Myopathy
- There Is No Power in Sex
- Nostalgia
- Note Blue or Poem for Eighties Babies
- Dirge in April
- Song of the Men
- Cycle Three: Conversations With Sleep
- Conversations with Sleep ( I )
- Conversations with Sleep ( II )
- Conversations with Sleep ( III )
- Conversations with Sleep ( IV )
- Conversations with Sleep ( V )
- Cycle Four: Eschatology
- It Is Always Dark in Egypt
- Barcode
- The Robots Are Coming
- Fool's Therapy
- Goliath
- Exit Season
- Words for the Departed
- Charm
- Cycle Five: The Mediocrity Principle
- Context
- Points of Contact
- Call and Response
- Eucharist
- Reverence in the Atomic Age
- Dear Religion
- Man on an Iron Shore
- Art Project
- Mulligan
- None of Us Saints
- Unless Marooned
- Pale Blue Dot
- Notes
