![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “Crush” is a fortress of solitude holding raw, emotional virtuosity from one of America’s finest inheritors of distinct Plathian poise. Siken uses strong imagery and diction to discuss the themes of abuse, love, and violence throughout the collection. Those inept in poetry, those such as myself when I first encountered this book, will find themselves entranced by Siken’s proficiency in obsessively capturing moments suspended in time - those moments defined by nothing but the reactions we cannot translate into language - that he somehow manages to translate into language. Crush by Richard Siken is a phenomenal collection of poems that uses confessionalism to explore the speaker 's experiences with love and homosexuality. Siken’s poems conjure tender, often hypersexualized ruminations on former lovers with a looming fear of (as the foreword by Louise Gluck states) oblivion. How it was late, and no one could sleep, the horses running / until they forget they are horses. The book itself is divided into three Romanic-numbered parts, each part characterized by an ineluctable feeling of anxiety and overwrought brooding. Consider the first poem of the collection, Sheherazade: Tell me about the dream where we pull bodies out of the lake / and dress them in warm clothes again. “ Crush ” is a collection of poetry written by American poet Richard Siken and is the winner of the 2004 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition. This week, Radar’s “Lit” pick is “Crush” by Richard Siken. Radar is committed to all forms of art and entertainment and as such, will pick one book as a reading recommendation every week. ![]()
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