Honest Engine by Kyle Dargan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dargan, Kyle.

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (92 p.)

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015

Place of Publication:

Athens : University of Georgia Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

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

Contents:

""Cover""; ""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""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780820348315

0820348317

OCLC:

903318233