They restore to poetry that sense of crucial moment and crucial utterance which may indeed be the great genius of the form. She notes, & Books of this kind dream big. In her introduction to the book, Glück hails the & cumulative, driving, apocalyptic power, purgatorial recklessness& of Siken& s poems. 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 Glück 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) Louise Gluck as the 2004 winner of the Yale Younger Poets prize, Richard Sikens Crush is a powerful collection of poems driven by obsession and love. & 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 Crush (Yale Series of Younger Poets) Paperback Octoby Richard Siken (Author), Louise Gluck (Foreword) 939 ratings See all formats and editions Paperback 19.39 19 Used from 17.33 21 New from 13.
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