Richard Siken's Crush, selected as this year's winner of the Yale Younger Poets prize, is a powerful collection of poems driven by obsession. Siken writes with ferocity, and his reader hurtles unstoppably with him. His poetry is confessional, gay, savage, and charged with violent eroticism. In her i[...]
"His territory is where] passion and eloquence collide and fuse.'--"The New York Times""Richard Siken writes about love, desire, violence, and eroticism with a cinematic brilliance and urgency."--"Huffington Post"Richard Siken's debut, "Crush," won the Yale Younger Poets' Prize, sold over 20,000 co[...]