Crush

Finalist for the 2005 National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry--an erotic, powerful collection

"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 Gl ck 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, Gl ck 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."

Author: Richard Siken
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 10/22/2019
Pages: 80
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.20lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.40w x 0.40d
ISBN13: 9780300246308
ISBN10: 0300246307
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | American | General
- Poetry | LGBTQ+

About the Author
Richard Siken is cofounder and editor of the literary magazine spork. He received two Arizona Commission on the Arts grants, two Lannan Residency Fellowships, and a Literature Fellowship in Poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts.