Book description
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…
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1 author picked Crush as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
When I was 21, I moved back to Japan (where I’d lived as a kid), taking a job in the rural south. I didn’t bring a lot with me, but of the few English books that felt indispensable, Crush was one. For the next twelve months of that particular job, I read Crush again and again. Through poetry – the poems are written in a distinct and unified voice – the book took on the quality of a series of monologues, a one-sided conversation that I was overhearing. It was a conversation about queerness, about attempting to forge and re-forge…
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