Richard Siken lives in Tucson, Arizona. He is cofounder and
editor of the literary magazine spork.
"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 Chang, Huffington
Post
One book I keep returning to is Richard Siken's Crush. . . .
The poems are vivid, heaving things, stuffed with obsession and
surprises. . . . The poems aren't comforting, but they're
invigorating. This is a book about thrashing around in the great
big world, being messy, being alive."-Elizabeth A. Harris, New
York Times Book Review
"Siken's debut collection derives its energy from the friction
among bodies, selves, and lovers. . . . This book will excite
patrons and be long remembered. Recommended for all
collections."-Library Journal
"Vital, immediate, and cinematic in scope, [Siken's] verse offers
sharply observed vignettes of longing, love, and pain."-Library
Journal (Best Poetry of 2005)
"A powerful collection of poems . . . at once confessional, gay,
savage, and charged with a violent eroticism."-Forecast
Finalist for the 2005 National Book Critics Circle Award in
Poetry
Winner of the 2005 Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry, sponsored by The
Publishing Triangle
"Crush is a wondrous, brilliant book. Richard Siken's poetry
is daring in its construction, graceful yet startling in its
beauty, and complicit with emotions and states of mind that would
have remained unintelligible without him."-Dennis Cooper
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