Crush Condition:Well Read it's hard to resist their

it's hard to resist their pull on the imagination - even though

At once wildly comic and strikingly original

apocalyptic power

from terrorism to shark attacks

One thing he already knows

Crush Condition:Well Read it's hard to resist theirThe 2004 winner of the Yale Younger Poets competition: a powerful, confessional, erotic collection Finalist for the 2005 National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry "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 Richard Siken's Crush, selected as the 2004 winner of the Yale Younger Poets prize, is a