Kyle Dargan
Author of The Listening: Poems (The Cave Canem Poetry Prize)
About the Author
Kyle Dargan is a Yusef Komunyakaa fellow at Indiana University, where he also serves as a poetry editor for the Indiana Review.
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Works by Kyle Dargan
Associated Works
Angles of Ascent: A Norton Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry (2013) — Contributor — 42 copies
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So, this is an excellent collection of poems you've likely not had the chance to read before. I am admittedly partial as it features my amazing sister, but I'm also pleased to find her in such good company.
My only critique is that the collection is very heavy on contrapuntal poems, in a form I've found is called a 'cleave poem', although at least one doesn't quite work in all three aspects. I'm all for a good structure; I even love a sestina, but the overuse does a disservice to the later poems which begin to just feel gimmicky.… (more)