Crush (Volume 99) (Yale Series of Younger Poets)
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The 2004 winner of the Yale Younger Poets competition: a powerful confessional erotic collection An Atlantic choice for Best American Poetry of the 21st Century (So Far) Finalist for the 2005 National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry 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 Richard Sikens 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 Sikens voice is striking. In her introduction to the book competition judge Louise Glck hails the cumulative driving apocalyptic power and purgatorial recklessness of Sikens 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.
