Crush by Richard Siken
Richard Siken's Crush, selected as this year's winner of the Yale Younger Poets prize, is a powerful collection of poems driven by obsession. Siken writes with ferocity, and his reader hurtles unstoppably with him. His poetry is confessional, gay, savage, and charged with violent eroticism. In her introduction to the book, competition judge Louise Gluck hails the "cumulative, driving, apocalyptic power, and purgatorial recklessness" of Siken's poems. She notes, "Books of this kind dream big ...They restore to poetry that sense of crucial moment and crucial utterance which may indeed be the great genius of the form."
Richard Siken: Richard Siken's first book, Crush, won the Yale Younger Poets' Prize in 2004, and became a poetry best-seller. He co-founded and currently edits the magazine spork and lives in Tucson, Arizona.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780300107210 |
| ISBN 10 | 0300107218 |
| Title | Crush |
| Author | Richard Siken |
| Series | Younger Poets S |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Yale University Press |
| Year published | 2005-04-11 |
| Number of pages | 80 |
| Prizes | Winner of Lambda Literary Awards (Gay Poetry) 2005, Winner of Triangle Awards (Gay Poetry) 2006 |
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