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. "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.
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