{"product_id":"crush-richard-siken-9780300278576","title":"Crush: Volume 99","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe twentieth-anniversary edition of \u003ci\u003eCrush\u003c\/i\u003e, the passionate and influential poetry collection by Richard Siken\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Richard Siken's \u003ci\u003eCrush\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets prize in 2004, is driven by obsession and love--confessional, gay, savage, and charged with violent eroticism. Nobel Prize laureate and competition judge Louise Gl?ck hailed the \"cumulative, driving, apocalyptic power, [and] purgatorial recklessness\" of Siken's poems. \"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.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Since its publication, \u003ci\u003eCrush\u003c\/i\u003e has become a modern classic. It is one of the books most often read by young poets, and it is frequently taught and assigned. This twentieth-anniversary edition includes a new introduction by award-winning poet Dana Levin and a new afterword by the author.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Richard Siken\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0300278578\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780300278576\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 03\/25\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 96\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Richard Siken","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46140989767935,"sku":"9780300278576","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_301c46d2-2210-4a61-bb9d-e673fd4f28d6.jpg?v=1726597612","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/crush-richard-siken-9780300278576","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}