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Title	:	Crush
Author	:	Richard Siken
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 62 pages
Published	:	April 11th 2005 by Yale University Press
Categories	:	Poetry. LGBT. GLBT. Queer

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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 Glück 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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Original Title:	Crush
ISBN:	0300107897 (ISBN13: 9780300107890)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry (2006), National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for Poetry (2005), Yale
Series:	of Younger Poets Competition (2004)

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I have always wondered what is the essence that makes prose a lasting memory and deeply flows into my veins. Reading this collection of poems allowed me to see it clearly. The poetic bits are the thing ingrained (encoded) in my sensitivity system. This work is more than a fascinating compilation of language. I've seen the intricacies and strings of thought that carry through each section. It truly reached in deep and took me along with it. 'Tell me about the dream where we pull the bodies out of

(I read this sleepless and aching.I've read parts of this book separately and reading it whole now takes me to places I thought I left, a previous lover read to me a poem by him, I've read lines of the book once so many times that some days of mine were titled by some of these verses. By the end of the book I was just drained from the bits of me that Siken's words swallowed.The poem Saying Your Names should be read loudly, so loudly that the names and the verses will take place in your mind and

A poetry collection inconsolable of its particular homosexual aching and desire, Crush grinds words into a cup of caffeine-infused affection. Whilst it also traverses realisations and remembrances throughout the complications of same sex attraction, it is insatiably hungry for love and the many faces it dons. It ravages it with kisses until it's bruised. It leaves. It comes back. And there is a cyclic element amongst the relationship/s this collection macerates into nimble physical

The Yale Younger Poets prize is the oldest annual literary award in the United States. The competition is open to any American under forty years of age who has not previously published a volume of poetry.The Thom Gunn Award is an annual literary award, presented by Publishing Triangle to honour works of gay male poetry. First presented in 2001 as the Triangle Award for Gay Poetry, the award was renamed in memory of American poet Thom Gunn, the award's first winner, following his death in 2004.

"and the gentleness that comes,not from the absence of violence, but despitethe abundance of it."I read Richard Siken's poem "Wishbone" on the internet. I read it once and closed the page. The next day I was painfully aware I couldn't leave it behind. That my mind kept circling back to his words. So I read it and re-read it again and again. Dozens of times, until I realised it would never be enough, so I ordered his book.I have never in my life anticipated the arrival of a book more than I did

In an older study advice post on how to approach poetry, I wrote that a good poet should be able to make you feel something, whether you fully understand the work or not:Often poems are not so much vessels of information, but more like an experience. A good poet can reach out and get an emotional response from you even if you have no clue what (s)he is talking about. Sometimes you need to read a poem a few times before you fully understand it, or you can spend the rest of your life reading a

I felt like I had the wind knocked out of me after I read this. There's a thread of a story here, but it's abstract and shadowed. Almost a ghost of a story. What's left are the raw emotions of the actual experience, which is what great poetry is: distilling the massive events that make up a life until there's nothing left but the urgent parts, the ones that carry the meaning.