Richard Siken,Louise Gluck - Crush
Richard Siken,Louise Gluck - Crush Finalist for the 2005 National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry--an erotic, powerful collection "One of the best books of contemporary poetry."--Victoria Chang,…
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Richard Siken,Louise Gluck - Crush
Finalist for the 2005 National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry--an erotic, powerful collection "One of the best books of contemporary poetry."--Victoria Chang, Huffington Post "Vital, immediate, and cinematic in scope."--Library Journal (Best Poetry of 2005)Selected by Nobel Prize laureate and competition judge Louise Gl ck 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. 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 In the world of American poetry, Siken's voice is striking.In her introduction to the book, Gl ck hails the "cumulative, driving, apocalyptic power, and] purgatorial recklessness" of Siken's poems.