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Series: Yale Series of Younger Poets
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Finalist for the 2005 National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry—an erotic, powerful collection
"One of the best books of contemporary poetry."—Victoria Chang, Huffington Post
"Vital, immediate, and cinematic in scope."—Library Journal (Best Poetry of 2005)
Selected by Nobel Prize laureate and competition judge Louise Glück 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. 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, 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.”
Series: Yale Series of Younger Poets
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Crush
Finalist for the 2005 National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry—an erotic, powerful collection "One of the best books of contemporary poetry."—Victoria Chang, Huffington Post "Vital, immediate, and cinematic in scope."—Library Journal (Best Poetry of 2005) Selected by Nobel Prize laureate and competition judge Louise Glück as the 2004 winner of the Yale Younger Poets prize, Richard Siken’s Crush is...Paperback$3500Elsewhere:$3799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks -
Crush
The twentieth-anniversary edition of the influential first poetry collection by Richard Siken Since winning the 2004 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition, Crush has become a modern classic. This twentieth-anniversary edition includes a new introduction by award-winning poet Dana Levin and a new afterword by the author.Hardback$6699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks -
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Crush by Richard Siken is highly praised for its vivid, cinematic brilliance and urgency, exploring themes of love, desire, and violence with invigorating intensity. The poems are described as messy yet alive, offering sharply observed vignettes of longing and pain. Siken's work is noted for its daring construction and violent eroticism, making it a standout collection in contemporary poetry.
Book Details
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ISBN: 9780300246308
Publisher: Yale University Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 14 January 2020
Country: United States
Imprint: Yale University Press
Contributors:
- Foreword by Louise Glück
- Foreword by Louise Glück
Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education
DIMENSIONS
Width: 140.0mm
Height: 210.0mm
Weight: 86g
Pages: 80
About the Author
Richard Siken is cofounder and editor of the literary magazine spork. He received two Arizona Commission on the Arts grants, two Lannan Residency Fellowships, and a Literature Fellowship in Poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts.
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A collection of pitch-perfect prose poems written in the immediate aftermath of a catastrophic stroke. From the author of cult poetry bestseller, Crush 'A spectacular comeback' Jeremy Noel Tod, Prospect 'Siken's signature intensity still throbs between sentences' The Yale Review A collection of pitch-perfect prose poems written in the immediate aftermath of a catastrophic stroke. From the author of cult...Paperback$3500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
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War of the Foxes may be the most anticipated poetry book of the last decade... expect it to haunt you. - NPR.org Richard Siken writes about love, desire, violence, and eroticism with a cinematic brilliance and urgency. - Huffington Post In reviewing Richard Siken's first book, Crush, the New York Times immediately complicates concerns of morality, human capacity, and the...Paperback$4800Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
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