Crush - Siken Richard
Crush - Siken Richard Announcing the 2004 winner of the Yale Younger Poets competition, North America's oldest annual literary prize.Richard Siken's Crush, selected as the 2004 winner of the Yale…
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Crush - Siken Richard
Announcing the 2004 winner of the Yale Younger Poets competition, North America's oldest annual literary prize.Richard Siken's Crush, selected as the 2004 winner of the Yale Younger Poets prize, is a powerful collection of poems driven by obsession and love. His poetry is confessional, gay, savage, and charged with violent eroticism. Siken writes with ferocity, and his reader hurtles unstoppably with him.
She notes, "Books of this kind dream big. . . . In the world of American poetry, Siken's voice is striking.In her introduction to the book, competition judge Louise Gluck hails the "cumulative, driving, apocalyptic power, [and] purgatorial recklessness" of Siken's poems. They restore to poetry that sense of crucial moment and crucial utterance which may indeed be the great genius of the form."