Crush
By Richard Siken
(Yale University Press, Hardcover, 9780300107210, 80pp.)
Publication Date: March 2005
Other Editions of This Title: Compact Disc, Paperback
Categories: American - General
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Richard Siken’s Crush, selected as the 2004 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 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.”
Richard Siken lives in Tucson, Arizona. He is cofounder and editor of the literary magazine spork.
"Vital, immediate, and cinematic in scope, [Siken''s] verse offers sharply observed vignettes of longing, love, and pain."—Library Journal (Best Poetry of 2005)
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