They restore to poetry that sense of crucial moment and crucial utterance which may indeed be the great genius of the form. Crush (Yale Series of Younger Poets) By Richard Siken, Louise Glück 18. Crush (Yale Series of Younger Poets) by Richard Siken Paperback Book The Cheap. She notes, "Books of this kind dream big. CRUSH becomes a child, sad and staring at the ground, the one you reach out to comfort, only to realize the child is you. In her introduction to the book, Gluck hails the "cumulative, driving, apocalyptic power, purgatorial recklessness" of Siken's poems. Richard Sikens Crush, selected as the 2004 winner of the Yale Younger Poets prize, is a powerful collection of poems driven by. In the world of American poetry, Siken's voice is striking. His poetry is confessional, gay, savage, and charged with violent eroticism. Siken writes with ferocity, and his reader hurtles unstoppably with him. Selected by Nobel Prize laureate and competition judge Louise Gluck 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. "Vital, immediate, and cinematic in scope."- Library Journal (Best Poetry of 2005) "One of the best books of contemporary poetry."-Victoria Chang, Huffington Post Finalist for the 2005 National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry-an erotic, powerful collection
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