{"product_id":"crush-richard-siken-9780300246308","title":"Crush","description":"\u003cb\u003eFinalist for the 2005 National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry--an erotic, powerful collection\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"One of the best books of contemporary poetry.\"--Victoria Chang, \u003ci\u003eHuffington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Vital, immediate, and cinematic in scope.\"--\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e (Best Poetry of 2005)\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Selected by Nobel Prize laureate and competition judge Louise Gl ck as the 2004 winner of the Yale Younger Poets prize, Richard Siken's \u003ci\u003eCrush\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In her introduction to the book, Gl ck 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.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Richard Siken\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0300246307\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780300246308\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Yale University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/22\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 80\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.10h x 5.40w x 0.40d","brand":"Richard Siken","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44050363121919,"sku":"9780300246308","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_1be0e392-76de-45eb-94f8-620e4385f70a.jpg?v=1685006791","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/crush-richard-siken-9780300246308","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}