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. Recommended for all collections."-Library Journal "Vital, immediate, and cinematic in scope, verse offers sharply observed vignettes of longing, love, and pain."-Library Journal (Best Poetry of 2005) "A powerful collection of poems. This book will excite patrons and be long remembered. In the foreword to Crush, competition judge Louise Glück wrote that the poems contained "cumulative, driving, apocalyptic power, purgatorial recklessness", and that "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."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 "Vital, immediate, and cinematic in scope, verse offers sharply observed vignettes of longing, love, and pain."-Library Journal (Best Poetry of 2005) "Siken's debut collection derives its energy from the friction among bodies, selves, and lovers. The Huffington Post's Victoria Chang praises the poet for writing with a "cinematic brilliance and urgency". In Louise Glück's review of the poem, she makes the following observation, "Tell me, the poet says, the lie I need to feel safe, and tell me in your own voice, so I believe you. It positions the reader as an accomplice to its dealings.
The opening poem, Scheherazade (the title references to the character from One Thousand and One Nights) intimates inevitability and is foreboding in its tone. It is said that Siken's main inspiration was the death of his boyfriend in the early 1990s. The collection of poems contemplate infatuation, intimacy, loss, and grief. It was selected as the winner of the 2004 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition by Nobel laureate Louise Glück. Crush is the debut collection of poetry by American poet Richard Siken.
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