They restore to poetry that sense of crucial moment and crucial utterance which may indeed be the great genius of the form. She notes, “Books of this kind dream big. In her introduction to the book, competition judge Louise Glück hails the “cumulative, driving, apocalyptic power, purgatorial recklessness” of Siken’s poems. In the world of American poetry, Siken's voice is striking. Selected by Nobel Prize laureate and competition judge Louise Glck as the 2004 winner of the Yale Younger Poets prize, Richard Sikens Crush is a powerful. His poetry is confessional, gay, savage, and charged with violent eroticism. In this much-anticipated second book, Richard Siken seeks definite answers to indefinite questions: what it means to be called to makewhether it is a self, love, war, or artand what it means to answer that call. Siken writes with ferocity, and his reader hurtles unstoppably with him. Richard Sikens debut, Crush, won the Yale Younger Poets Prize, sold over 20,000 copies, and earned him a devoted fan-base. 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. "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 The 2004 winner of the Yale Younger Poets competition: a powerful, confessional, erotic collectionįinalist for the 2005 National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry Announcing the 2004 winner of the Yale Younger Poets competition, North America's oldest annual literary prize.
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