Crush (Yale Series of Younger Poets)

Type

Book

Authors

Richard Siken

ISBN 10

0300107897

ISBN 13

9780300107890

Tags

Poetry, United States, Love Poems

Description

Richard Sikenâs Crush, selected as the 2004 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 GlÃ¼ck hails the âcumulative, driving, apocalyptic power, [and] purgatorial recklessnessâ of Sikenâs poems. She notes, âBooks 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.â - from Amzon

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