SC25 - Day Nineteen (Yale University Press)

Heavy enough to hurt if it falls on you. (In hardcover. From a distance.)

I’ve got a new poet crush. On this book, specifically. These poems. This paper. That cover!

August 19th - Book Nineteen (Yale University Press)

Number of Pages: 62
Start Page: 1
Number of Poems: 21
Time Reading: 45 minutes

The book is Crush (20th Anniversary Edition), by Richard Siken (winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets prize in 2004). He has a lot of his poetry, including the entire contents of this book (!), along with a few essays, linked on his website.

With a new afterword (which I haven’t yet read, saving for some future delight), a foreword by Louise Glück, and an introduction by Dana Levin.

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