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Crush / Richard Siken ; foreword by Louise Glück.

by Siken, Richard, 1967-

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Yale University Press, 2019.

American poetry -- 21st century.

Gay erotic poetry -- 21st century.

Gay men -- Poetry.

Love poetry, American.

Lambda Literary Award.

Yale series of younger poets ; v. 99.

9780300246308 (pbk)

xii, 62 p. ; 21 cm.

Originally published April 11, 2005.

Scheherazade -- Dirty valentine -- Little beast -- Seaside improvisation -- The torn-up road -- Litany in which certain things are crossed out -- Visible world -- Boot theory -- A primer for the small weird loves -- Unfinished duet -- I had a dream about you -- Straw house, straw dog -- Saying your names -- Planet of love -- Wishbone -- Driving, not washing -- Road music -- The dislocated room -- You are Jeff -- Meanwhile -- Snow and dirty rain.

"Selected by Nobel Prize laureate and competition judge Louise Glück as the 2004 winner of the Yale Younger Poets prize, Richard Siken’s Crush 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, 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.”"--Publisher.

Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry, 2006.

Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize, 2004.

American poetry.

Glück, Louise, 1943-

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