![]() ![]() I picked it up quite awhile ago, initially because Louise Glück wrote the forward and secondarily because Siken is gay. Recently, this book of poetry has been getting quite a book of publicity: in 2004, then-poet laureate Louise Glück (who is fabulous, I might add) selected him as the winner of Yale Younger Poets prize, and in 2006, Crush won the Lambda Literary Award for poetry. ![]() ![]() And who knows, if you ever listened to me and read one of these things, you might find a new genre to explore. Obscure, decades-old queer theories and contemporary poetry hardly seem like they're jumping off the shelves in bookstores, but I like to think I'm expanding the horizons of all you topfive_reviewsers. I realize I do not review, for the most part, wildly popular things. ![]()
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