Honest Engine: Poems

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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Dargan, Kyle
Published: 04/01/2015
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 9780820347288
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.29lbs
Size: 8.30h x 6.23w x 0.23d