Yale Younger Poets Crush, (Paperback)

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What is *THIS*? A poetry collection that I loved to bits and clutched to my chest? If you've been following my thread for a long time, you know that I don't generally get on terribly well with poetry, but this one, man. It is so good, and so heartbreaking, and so, like, beautifully, unbearably *a...

from EnsignBlueshirt

There are few poets I've found with the narrative skill and stylised descriptions of this book. The pace is frantic, and unforgiving, the emotions portrayed brutal and violent and paced with a rhythm that does not let the reader go before the last stanza. Siken draws a fibre-fine line between lov...

from rmariem

I'm grateful for the half-star option. This book floored me, utterly, and I recommend it to all.

from danlai

Do you remember Prometheus?That thief of fire who was bound to the rock in order for the vulture to pick at his liver, every day? That liver grew back every day for the sole purpose of being eaten again. The liver wasn't helpful to Prometheus, it was only a source of pain. Can you imagine what it...

from rivkat

Siken's Litany in Which Certain Things Are Crossed Out gets a reasonable amount of circulation in my circles, and it's a good example of Siken's pained humor. ("I can tell already you think I'm the dragon, that would be so like me, but I'm not. I'm not the dragon.... but the princess looks into h...