They restore to poetry that sense of crucial moment and crucial utterance which may indeed be the great genius of the form. 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. She notes, 'Books of this kind dream big.

Siken writes with ferocity, and his reader. In her introduction to the book, competition judge Louise Gluck hails the 'cumulative, driving, apocalyptic power, purgatorial recklessness' of Siken's poems. 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. In the world of American poetry, Siken's voice is striking. 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. They restore to poetry that sense of crucial moment and crucial utterance which may indeed be the great genius of the form.The 2004 winner of the Yale Younger Poets competition: a powerful, confessional, erotic collection Finalist for the 2005 National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry 'Siken writes about love, desire, violence, and eroticism with a cinematic brilliance and urgency that makes this one of the best books of contemporary poetry.'-Victoria Chang, Huffington Post 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. 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 Gl?ck hails the ?cumulative, driving, apocalyptic power, purgatorial recklessness? of Siken?s poems. Siken writes with ferocity, and his reader hurtles unstoppably with him. In this long-awaited follow-up to Crush, Yale Series of Younger Poets prize-winner Richard Siken turns toward the problems of making and representation, in an unrelenting interrogation of our world of doublings.

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. Read Or Download Crush By Richard Siken Full Pages.

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