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.