There’s also a “burn it all or die” feeling to some, where the promised apocalyptic theme comes in.
The poems are mostly about love and obsession, as the synopsis says, along with being gay and crushing on guys. But suddenly I don’t get how one part of a poem connects to the next? Or what it’s about, always? heeelp. It has a nice flow, and some phrases that paints very endearing and engaging pictures. The great goodreads ratings (4.3 average) tilts towards me being the one left out in this scenario, but I’m not sure everyone else is not just playing along (jk). Usually, when I don’t understand poetry or other fiction, I know there’s a deeper meaning and I’m simply missing some connection that I need to completely understand it. They restore to poetry that sense of crucial moment and crucial utterance which may indeed be the great genius of the form.” My thoughts 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.
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