![]() ![]() His poetry is confessional, gay, savage, and charged with violent eroticism. Siken writes with ferocity, and his reader hurtles unstoppably with him. ![]() 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. She notes, 'Books of this kind dream big. ![]() In her introduction to the book, competition judge Louise Gluck hails the 'cumulative, driving, apocalyptic power, and] purgatorial recklessness' of Siken' s poems. Richard Siken' s 'Crush,' selected as the 2004 winner of the Yale Younger Poets prize, is a powerful collection of poems driven by obsession. ![]()
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