Crush
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An Atlantic choice for "Best American Poetry of the 21st Century (So Far)"
"One of the best books of contemporary poetry."--Victoria Chang, Huffington Post
"Vital, immediate, and cinematic in scope."--Library Journal (Best Poetry of 2005)
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. Siken writes with ferocity, and his reader hurtles unstoppably with him. His poetry is confessional, gay, savage, and charged with violent eroticism. In the world of American poetry, Siken's voice is striking.
In her introduction to the book, Glück 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."
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The way you slam your body into mine reminds me I’m alive, but monsters are always hungry, darling, and they’re only a few steps behind you I stumbled upon Snow & Dirty Rain somewhere and since then, I always wanted to read the full collection of Richard Sikens poems. S&DR is still my favorite one of them, but the other ones were great too. Raw emotions and vulnerable, dark themes, sadness and longing. It's very obvious that the collection was inspired by the death of Sikens boyfriend, as most of the poems deal with the loss of a lover.
It is impossible for me to put into words what the work of Richard Siken does to your heart and your mind. His words are so enormously fantastic. Violent and heart wrenching. Sometimes gentle but always from a restlessness that takes you away and tosses you from page to page into tragedies and and stories about love, requited, unrequited, answered, unanswered. It doesn’t matter who you love or loved. You will understand as long as you had loved at all. One of the best books I ever read.
Description
An Atlantic choice for "Best American Poetry of the 21st Century (So Far)"
"One of the best books of contemporary poetry."--Victoria Chang, Huffington Post
"Vital, immediate, and cinematic in scope."--Library Journal (Best Poetry of 2005)
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. Siken writes with ferocity, and his reader hurtles unstoppably with him. His poetry is confessional, gay, savage, and charged with violent eroticism. In the world of American poetry, Siken's voice is striking.
In her introduction to the book, Glück 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."
Book Information
Posts
The way you slam your body into mine reminds me I’m alive, but monsters are always hungry, darling, and they’re only a few steps behind you I stumbled upon Snow & Dirty Rain somewhere and since then, I always wanted to read the full collection of Richard Sikens poems. S&DR is still my favorite one of them, but the other ones were great too. Raw emotions and vulnerable, dark themes, sadness and longing. It's very obvious that the collection was inspired by the death of Sikens boyfriend, as most of the poems deal with the loss of a lover.
It is impossible for me to put into words what the work of Richard Siken does to your heart and your mind. His words are so enormously fantastic. Violent and heart wrenching. Sometimes gentle but always from a restlessness that takes you away and tosses you from page to page into tragedies and and stories about love, requited, unrequited, answered, unanswered. It doesn’t matter who you love or loved. You will understand as long as you had loved at all. One of the best books I ever read.