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Announcing the 2004 winner of the Yale Younger Poets competition, North America's oldest annual literary prize. 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. 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, competition judge Louise Gluck 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.

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PublisherYale University Press

ISBN-139780300107890

eBay Product ID (ePID)90702502

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Book TitleCrush

AuthorRichard Siken

FormatPaperback

LanguageEnglish

TopicPoetry

Publication Year2005

Number of Pages80 Pages

Dimensions

Item Height81mm

Item Width91mm

Item Weight32g

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Title_AuthorRichard Siken

Series TitleYale Series of Younger Poets

Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States

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