This is a book about thrashing around in the great big world, being messy, being alive.-Elizabeth A. The poems aren't comforting, but they're invigorating. The poems are vivid, heaving things, stuffed with obsession and surprises. One book I keep returning to is Richard Siken's Crush. 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, purgatorial recklessness of Siken's poems. 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. Richard Siken's Crush, selected as the 2004 winner of the Yale Younger Poets prize, is a powerful collection of poems driven by obsession and love. Siken writes about love, desire, violence, and eroticism with a cinematic brilliance and urgency that makes this one of the best books of contemporary poetry.-Victoria Chang, Huffington Post The 2004 winner of the Yale Younger Poets competition: a powerful, confessional, erotic collectionįinalist for the 2005 National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry
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