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August 3, 2015
 

The Erotic Is a Measure Between

 
Kyle Dargan

About This Poem

 

“I’ve kept Audre Lorde’s essay ‘Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power’ close by me ever since Nikky Finney introduced me to the work at the Cave Canem retreat many years ago. So much of sexuality is posited as something enacted upon women by hetero men. I wanted to complicate or challenge that notion. While re-reading Lorde’s essay in preparation for a panel discussion on taboo and sexuality in African-American poetry, a line from Lorde (which is now the title) gave me an avenue to attempt that.”
Kyle Dargan

 

Kyle Dargan is the author of Honest Engine (University of Georgia Press, 2015). He directs the MFA program at American University and lives in Washington, D.C.

 

Photo Credit: Marlene Hawthorne

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Honest Engine

(University of Georgia Press, 2015)

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