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Crush (Yale Series of Younger Poets)
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 811.6
EAN: 9780300107890
ISBN: 0300107897
Label: Yale University Press
Manufacturer: Yale University Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 80
Publication Date: April 11, 2005
Publisher: Yale University Press
Studio: Yale University Press
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Editorial Review:
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 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’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.
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Rating:  - Sick. Love it.
One of my favorite book of poems. Tender and tortuous. Had a chance to meet with the author and discuss it with him. He is as interesting as the book itself. Definitely a must read.
Rating: - Perfect
It's hard to sum up these poems. They're so evocative and fascinating, often transforming their meaning and intent from line to line.
In a way they are very much like the best noir films, constantly working at the edge of revelation and deception to create a narrative. The underlying themes of desire- much of it gay- and danger work beautifully with images of bullets, motorbikes, bodies and respite.
Rating: - Poems That Keep You Awake
These are poems that you read when you want to tear your heart open and feel things. These poems kept me awake revisiting loves from my past and crying over the freshness of emotion that came over me. Reading these poems in like living reality in imaginary circumstances because you are there with Richard and you want to reach out and grab his hand and let him know that he is not alone. "Dirty Valentine" is a haunting recount of love that takes you over and never gives back what is taken:
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Rating: - One of the best books I've read this year.
Richard Siken, Crush (Yale, 2005)
When I compile my list of the ten best reads of the year, I have no doubt whatsoever that Richard Siken's first book, Crush, will be on that list, possibly at the top. I could stare at the cover for hours-- a close-up of a mouth, and a hand, thumb wet with blood, or perhaps motor oil. It fits perfectly with the contents of the book, which are clingy, suffocating, obsessive, and uniformly brilliant. Louise Gluck writes in her introduction that "[f]or a book ... Read More
Rating:  - Blarg!
Siken's book is both over-hyped and over-dramatized. His poems are little more than language masturbations and like some regrettable one night stand leaves the reader feeling empty inside. I bought this book on recommendation from a friend who loves it --and indeed there are many who do--but his poetry strikes me as dangerously self-serving, with little to impart on the reader. I cannot for the life of me imagine Louise Gluck choosing this book - as someone who favors and employs what is "unspoken" in her ... Read More
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