Crush

English

Series: Yale Series of Younger Poets

ISBN: 0300107897

EAN: 9780300107890

Category: Poetry / General

Publisher: Yale University Press

Release Date: 04/30/2005

Synopsis: Richard SikensCrush, selected as this years winner of the Yale Younger Poets prize, is a powerful collection of poems driven by obsession. Siken writes with ferocity, and his reader hurtles unstoppably with him. His poetry is confessional, gay, savage, and charged with violent eroticism. In her introduction to the book, competition judge Louise Gluck hails the cumulative, driving, apocalyptic power, [and] purgatorial recklessness of Sikens 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.

Awards: Lambda Literary Awards – null  Lambda Literary Awards – null  Lambda Literary Awards – null 

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Crush

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Format: Paperback

Width: 5.5 inches

Length: 7.5 inches

Weight: 4.02 oz

Pages: 80