- Poetry, American poetry, Poetry (poetic works by one author), LGBT poetry
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.
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Character-led, grave, spare and contemporary.
- character-ledplot-driven
- gravecomic
- sparerichly built
- contemporarynostalgic
- cooloverwhelming
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- Author
- Richard Siken
- First published
- 2004
- Pages
- 80
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780300107210
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“Tell me about the dream where we pull the bodies out of the lake and dress them in warm clothes again.”
Richard Siken is an American poet, painter, and filmmaker. His poetry collection ***Crush*** won the 2004 Yale Series of Younger Poets prize, a Lambda Literary Award, the Thom Gunn Award, and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. His poems have appeared in *The Iowa Review*, *Conjunctions*, *Indiana Review* and *Forklift, Ohio*, as well as in the anthologies ***The Best American Poetry 2000*** and ***Legitimate Dangers***. He is a recipient of a Pushcart Prize, two Arizona Commission on the Arts grants, and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.
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