They restore to poetry that sense of crucial moment and crucial utterance which may indeed be the great genius of the form.'. Crush is the debut collection of poetry by American poet Richard Siken. She notes, 'Books of this kind dream big. Selected by Nobel Prize laureate and competition judge Louise Gluck as the 2004 winner of the Yale Younger Poets prize, Richard Sikens Crush is a powerful. In her introduction to the book, Gluck hails the 'cumulative, driving, apocalyptic power, 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. In the world of American poetry, Siken's voice is striking. 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 with ferocity, and his reader hurtles unstoppably with him. This item: Crush (Yale Series of Younger Poets): With a Foreword by Louise Glück £1247 + War of the Foxes £1839 + Night Sky with Exit Wounds £966 Total price: Some of these items are dispatched sooner than the others. 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 Gluck 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. Yale Series of Younger Poets Winners Books Judges Rules and Submission Guidelines Contact Us 2023 Cindy Juyoung Ok, Ward Toward Armantrout says: Cindy Juyoung Ok is a wonderfully inventive poet with a command of her craft.

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