The 2004 winner of the Yale Younger Poets competition: a powerful, confessional, erotic collectionįinalist for the 2005 National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry The mystery is that there is something to keep To hide it, the pink fingers gone gold as theĪs if you were the small room closed in glass The bedroom gone white, the astronomical light Sunlight pouring across your skin, your shadow They restore to poetry that sense of crucial moment and crucial utterance which may indeed be the great genius of the form. In her introduction to the book, competition judge Louise Gluck hails the cumulative, driving, apocalyptic power, and purgatorial recklessness of Siken's poems. His poetry is confessional, gay, savage, and charged with violent eroticism. Siken writes with ferocity, and his reader hurtles unstoppably with him. 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.
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