{"product_id":"crush","title":"Crush","description":"\u003cp\u003eSiken, Richard\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"expandContent\" id=\"desc_summary0300107897-content\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eAnnouncing the 2004 winner of the Yale Younger Poets competition, North America's oldest annual literary prize.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eThe 2004 winner of the Yale Younger Poets competition: a powerful, confessional, erotic collection \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinalist for the 2005 National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eHuffington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRichard Siken’s\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eCrush\u003c\/i\u003e, 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\u003e\u003cbr\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\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Yale University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44492432507113,"sku":"9780300107890","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0406\/5548\/7129\/products\/9780300107890_2e1d7.jpg?v=1680041097","url":"https:\/\/redstickreads.com\/products\/crush","provider":"Red Stick Reads","version":"1.0","type":"link"}