Crush (Yale Series of Younger Poets)
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| Rating | : | 4.78 (575 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0300107897 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 80 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-11-06 |
| Language | : | English |
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She notes, “Books of this kind dream big. His poetry is confessional, gay, savage, and charged with violent eroticism. Siken writes with ferocity, and his reader hurtles unstoppably with him. 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.”. In the world of American poetry, Siken's voice is striking.In her introduction to the book, competition judge Louise Glück hails the “cumulative, driving, apocalyptic power, and purgatorial recklessness” of Siken’s poems
Richard Siken lives in Tucson, Arizona. He is cofounder and editor of the literary magazine spork.
“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, The Huffington Post (Victoria Chang The Huffington Post)
"Poetry that will stick with you" according to Shonda. I bought this book simply because I was intrigued by the cover. After the first few poems, I was hooked. Richard Siken writes with a sense of longing and urgency. Take this, for example:"You’re in a car with a beautiful boy, and he won’t tell you that he loves you, but he l. J. D. Allen said Little Beast is all beaten up. I ordered this book because I found myself re reading Little Beast on the internet and I wondered what else Richard Siken had to say. It's just arrived as of last night and while I absolutely adore his imagery, I purchased a used copy. Every line of Little Beast has notes added (in pen. Five Stars kiera taylor I love this book!