![]() ![]() In her introduction to the book, competition judge Louise 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. 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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