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Book SynopsisThe 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.
Table of Contents CARDIAC Incision Pericardiectomy
Diastole Phase I King for a Day
Diaspora: A Narcolepsy Hymn
When I Say I Want to Defund the Police
BOOK OF RUTH
Ronin
“What More Could I, a Young Man, Want”
Escapology
Traditional Marriage
Man of the Family II
Mutant Dealing Factor
Performance Studies: Gunslinger
Undertaker
Phase II Performance Studies: O.P.P.
How I Became a Pleaser
Remedial Heteronormativity
Permutations
Her
Rhythm
Inquiry
Another Me
Performance Studies: She Asks
“The Erotic Is a Measure Between”
Incision Pericardiectomy
Systole Phase III For the Man Who Caught My Father
I Scream My Throat Raw
A Man with Nothing to Lose
These Men
Chris Christie Waits Alone at Newark Penn Station
That Time I Was God
Dendrology
Since You and I Would Talk About Mars
The Venus of Slap Boxing
After People Stop Asking About Me
Phase IV Rearview Freestyle
The Rule of Two
Mosaic Mary
Minefields
Glass, Once Shattered, Flutters Like Paper
Internal Legislation
Love Be a Slow-Moving Storm
Turbulence
Crews
Rockafella Chain
Another Way to Understand Our Fathers
Across Space and Time
Small Traveler
Adamah / A.M.A.B.
Suture Post-op
AcknowledgementsNotes