false 46964421 70158 96259 0300107897 9780300107890 73 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171310768m/96259.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171310768s/96259.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/96259.Crush 4.52 508 Crush, selected as this years 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 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."]]> 55349 4.52 517 77 2005 5 1 false Wed Feb 25 11:07:26 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 20 10:45:48 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 25 11:07:26 -0800 2009
I think I will start reading lots of confessional, juicy, intense poetry on the subway. Next up - Sharon Olds!]]>