Sublimation
By Kyle Dargan
“I am tired. I want to be / worthy of an alternative undoing / to which I might surrender—”
Kyle G. Dargan is the author of Anagnorisis: Poems, which is forthcoming from TriQuarterly/Northwestern UP this fall. His four previous collections of poetry are The Listening, which won the Cave Canem Prize; Bouquet of Hungers, which was awarded the 2008 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award; Logorrhea Dementia; and Honest Engine, which was a 2016 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award finalist and a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. All four were published by the University of Georgia Press. Dargan is the founder and editor of POST NO ILLS magazine. He works as an associate professor of literature and assistant director of creative writing at American University in Washington, D.C., where he lives.
By Kyle Dargan
“I am tired. I want to be / worthy of an alternative undoing / to which I might surrender—”