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Crush

(Yale Series of Younger Poets)

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 with ferocity, and his reader hurtles unstoppably with him. His poetry is con

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“Personally, I’m a mess of conflicting impulses — I’m independent and greedy and I also want to belong and share and be a part of the whole.”

— Richard Siken, amazon.com

Tagged: Confusion, Impulse, Decisions, Personality

“I do believe his mouth is heaven, his kisses falling over me like stars.”

— Richard Siken, amazon.com

Tagged: Intimacy, Love and Passion, love quotes, Kisses

“I sleep. I dream. I make up things that I would never say. I say them very quietly.”

— Richard Siken, amazon.com

Tagged: Sleep, Dream, Lie, poem

“Personally, I’m a mess of conflicting impulses — I’m independent and greedy and I also want to belong and share and be a part of the whole.”

— Richard Siken, amazon.com

Tagged: greedy, Impulse, Independent, part of the whole

“I sleep. I dream. I make up things that I would never say. I say them very quietly.”

— Richard Siken, amazon.com

Tagged: Dreaming

“I sleep. I dream. I make up things that I would never say. I say them very quietly.”

— Richard Siken, amazon.com

Tagged: Unsaid Things, Regret, Silence