Crush Contributor(s): Siken, Richard (Author), Glück, Louise (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 0300107897 ISBN-13: 9780300107890 Publisher: Yale University Press OUR PRICE: $16.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2005 Annotation: Richard Siken's "Crush," selected as this year's winner of the Yale Younger Poets prize, is a powerful collection of poems driven by obsession. Siken writes with ferocity, and his reader hurtles unstoppably with him. His poetry is confessional, gay, savage, and charged with violent eroticism. In her introduction to the book, competition judge Louise Gluck 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." |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General - Poetry | Lgbt - Poetry | Subjects & Themes - Love & Erotica |
Dewey: 811.6 |
LCCN: 2004054184 |
Series: Yale Younger Poets |
Physical Information: 0.25" H x 5.66" W x 7.46" (0.21 lbs) 80 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: The 2004 winner of the Yale Younger Poets competition: a powerful, confessional, erotic collection 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 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." |