![]() ![]() What holds is sheer art, despite the apparent abandon.”“ – from the blurb of Crush.Ĭrush is split into three sections, each of which aimed to move the reader through the speaker’s relationship with death. And the triumph of Crush is that it writhes and blazes while at the same time holding the reader utterly: ‘sustaining interest’ seems far to mild a term for this effect. ![]() The risk of obsessive material is that it may get boring, repetitious, predictable, shrill. In the dictionary, among the word’s many meanings, ‘to press between opposing bodies so as to break or injure to oppress to break, pound or grind.’ Or, as a noun, ‘extreme pressure.’ Out of this cauldron of destruction, its informal meaning: infatuation, the sweet fixation of girl on boy. As the distinguished poet and competition judge Louise Glück writes in the Foreword, "If panic is his ground note, Siken’s obsessive focus is a tyrant, the body. It is a powerful new collection of poems driven by panic and obsession. ![]() “Richard Siken’s Crush is the winner of the 2004 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition. ![]()
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