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    Crush

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    by Richard Siken, Louise Glück (Foreword by)

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    Richard Siken lives in Tucson, Arizona. He is cofounder and editor of the literary magazine spork.

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    Visible World

    Sunlight pouring across your skin, your shadow
    flat on the wall.
    The dawn was breaking the bones of your heart like twigs.
    You had not expected this,
    the bedroom gone white, the astronomical light
    pummeling you in a stream of fists.
    You raised your hand to your face as if
    to hide it, the pink fingers gone gold as the light
    streams straight to the bone,
    as if you were the small room closed in glass
    with every speck of dust illuminated.
    The light is no mystery,
    the mystery is that there is something to keep the light
    from passing through

    Table of Contents

    Foreword
    Scheherazade3
    Dirty valentine4
    Little beast5
    Seaside improvisation8
    The torn-up road9
    Litany in which certain things are crossed out11
    Visible world19
    Boot theory20
    A primer for the small weird loves22
    Unfinished duet26
    I had a dream about you28
    Straw house, straw dog31
    Saying your names33
    Planet of love39
    Wishbone40
    Driving, not washing42
    Road music44
    The dislocated room46
    You are Jeff50
    Meanwhile59
    Snow and dirty rain60
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    21st Century American Poetry
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    Not every poet launches his career by winning the Yale Series of Younger Poets award, and not every Yale Younger Poet makes the impression Siken has made (he got a National Book Critics Circle nomination, for instance). Vital, immediate, and cinematic in scope, his verse offers sharply observed vignettes of longing, love, and pain: "Tell me about the dream where we pull the bodies out of the lake/ and dress them in warm clothes again./ How it was late, and no one could sleep, the horses running/ Until they forget that they are horses." (LJ 6/1/05) Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.
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    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, The Huffington Post
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