Dargan, Kyle: Panzer Herz

Northwestern University Press, paperback Publication Date: April 15, 2023 Publisher Marketing: A poet's final barbed compilation that pierces the inherited and self-inflicted experiences of masculinity The keen and jagged blade that is Kyle Dargan's eye is drawn in Panzer Herz: A Live Dissection, the final poetic compilation of a lived and inherited masculinity. Dargan targets the armored heart, or "panzer herz"--a site where desire, violence, family, politics, blackness, and capitalism all intertwine with gender. Pierced with the question--What if the heart, in the aforementioned capacity, was not a constricting vessel, struggling to withstand internal and external pressures, but instead was a space of release?--the collection opens a cishet masculinity to the inquiries and explorations that the traditional conscription of gender discourages and often vilifies. I long to abandon this violent / vagrancy, but the roads . . . teem with other men who know / no training, who see upon me /