![]() ![]() In her introduction to the book, competition judge Louise Gluck hails the cumulative, driving. They restore to poetry that sense of crucial moment and crucial utterance which may indeed be the great genius of the form. In the world of American poetry, Sikens voice is striking. She notes, "Books of this kind dream big. In her introduction to the book, Gluck hails the "cumulative, driving, apocalyptic power, purgatorial recklessness" of Siken's poems. Richard Sikens Crush, selected as the 2004 winner of the Yale Younger Poets prize, is a powerful collection of poems driven by.In the world of American poetry, Siken's voice is striking. His poetry is confessional, gay, savage, and charged with violent eroticism. Siken writes with ferocity, and his reader hurtles unstoppably with him. Selected by Nobel Prize laureate and competition judge Louise Gluck as the 2004 winner of the Yale Younger Poets prize, Richard Siken's Crush is a powerful collection of poems driven by obsession and love. "Vital, immediate, and cinematic in scope."-Library Journal (Best Poetry of 2005) Richard Siken's poetry is daring in its construction, graceful yet startling in its beauty, and complicit with emotions and states of mind that would have remained unintelligible without him.'-Dennis Cooper William Yeats William Blake Ovid 25. ![]() "One of the best books of contemporary poetry."-Victoria Chang, Huffington Post Finalist for the 2005 National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry-an erotic, powerful collection ![]()
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