Through his powerful use of the second person, Siken reaches out to you, the reader, pulls you into his picture show, makes you the reluctant star. Siken's breathtaking debut possesses all the ingredients of poet Charles Harper Webb's formula for great poetry: wit, passion, and impropriety. "Every poem in Crush is every bit as immediate, engaging, and absorptive as the best films holds the reader rapt, making it almost impossible to look away from the beautiful and troubling scenes he sets.
Crush is a vivid, fast-paced book that may be read as a single, powerful sequence."- Antioch Review " Crush embodies an impressive unity of sex, the currents of feeling that carry us helplessly, fleeting encounters that often promise physical transcendence but leave us unloved or emotionally drained. Recommended for all collections."- Library Journal This book will excite patrons and be long remembered. "Siken’s debut collection derives its energy from the friction among bodies, selves, and lovers.
"Vital, immediate, and cinematic in scope, verse offers sharply observed vignettes of longing, love, and pain."- Library Journal (Best Poetry of 2005) "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
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