Taken one by one, they are works of art in their own right, but together the journey through the book and the pieces is really rather like music. Because they are all absolutely beautiful. It's very difficult to choose my favourite poems, actually. I think it's rare to find poetry so startlingly genuine and unnerving. It's plain that Siken had to go through a difficult period to produce something like this, and that should not be taken for granted. Moreover, this collection is painful to read in places, because of how truthful you can see it is. Siken has the ability to craft painfully beautiful sentences that attach themselves to the mind for a long time. This book certainly isn't over-hyped in this country, as you never hear Siken mentioned at all. To avoid something because other people like it? I'm sorry, but that doesn't make much sense to me. To be honest, I don't think that's true and I would urge you not to let that stop you from buying this book.
There's a slight tendency within literary circles online to view the quoting of Siken as too common, to even label him as hipster. It's right that you should buy this book. They restore to poetry that sense of crucial moment and crucial utterance which may indeed be the great genius of the form." She notes, "Books of this kind dream big. In her introduction to the book, competition judge Louise Glück hails the "cumulative, driving, apocalyptic power, purgatorial recklessness" of Siken's poems. In the world of American poetry, Siken's voice is striking. His poetry is confessional, gay, savage, and charged with violent eroticism. Siken writes with ferocity, and his reader hurtles unstoppably with him. Richard Siken's Crush, selected as the 2004 winner of the Yale Younger Poets prize, is a powerful collection of poems driven by obsession and love. "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 The 2004 winner of the Yale Younger Poets competition: a powerful, confessional, erotic collectionįinalist for the 2005 National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry
0 kommentar(er)
