{"product_id":"siken-richard-crushpb","title":"Siken, Richard: Crush","description":"\u003cp\u003eYale, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: April 11, 2005\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003ePublisher Marketing: The 2004 winner of the Yale Younger Poets competition: a powerful, confessional, erotic collection\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFinalist for the 2005 National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"Siken writes about love, desire, violence, and eroticism with a cinematic brilliance and urgency that makes this one of the best books of contemporary poetry.\"--Victoria Chang, Huffington Post\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRichard 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.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn 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.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40679353253911,"sku":"9780300107890","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/files\/view_archive_70e5c538-b0d8-4a87-9f05-472998944f82.jpg?v=1700265925","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/siken-richard-crushpb","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}