She notes, 'Books of this kind dream big. In her introduction to the book, competition judge Louise Gluck hails the 'cumulative, driving, apocalyptic power, purgatorial recklessness' of Siken's poems.

In the world of American poetry, Siken's voice is striking.

His poetry is confessional, gay, savage, and charged with violent eroticism. Siken writes with ferocity, and his reader hurtles unstoppably with him. The 2004 winner of the Yale Younger Poets competition: a powerful, confessional, erotic collection Finalist for the 2005 National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry '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 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. 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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