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Best richard siken poems5/17/2023 ![]() ![]() The risk of obsessive material is that it may get boring, repetitious, predictable, shrill. In her Foreword, Glück writes: “If panic is his ground note, Siken’s obsessive focus is a tyrant, the body. In this provocative collection, Richard Siken offers the reader poems driven by obsession and brimming with violent eroticism. This is Glück’s second selection in her tenure as the first female poet to become judge of the competition. The winner of the 2005 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition is Richard Siken’s Crush, chosen by competition judge and past poet laureate Louise Glück. ![]() Joel Brouwer, New York Times Book Review Winner of the 2005 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition ![]() Best of all are the poems where Siken’s passion and eloquence collide and fuse." "His territory is the passionate apex of an affair, where ripeness first tips toward rot.
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