Crush (Yale Series of Younger Poets)
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Author
Contributions
- Louise Gluck (Foreword) - Contributor
- Louise Glück - Foreword
Publication
2005-04-11 - Yale University Press, New Haven, CT
Language
English
Word Count
20,000 words, Guess
Page Count
80 pages
Physical Format
Paperback
Identifiers
- Internet Archivecrushyaleseriesy00sike
- ISBN-100300107897
- ISBN-139780300107890
- LibraryThing693805
- Goodreads96259
and 2 more
- OCLC Control Number56367546
- Open LibraryOL9898083M
Classifications
- LCCPS8000
Description
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 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, competition judge Louise 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."
First Sentence
Tell me about the dream where we pull the bodies out of the lake and dress them in warm clothes again.
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