Crush by Richard Siken

Introduction:

Art originates from life and is higher than life.

Introduction of the collection, Crush and explain the name.

Thesis: Richard Siken’s poetry collection Crush, which is very poetic because his poem connects to the reader, his poetry is very pictorial, exquisite, and delicate.

 

Interpretation:

Summary of the book, Love and obsession.

How did Siken make his poems…

Pictorial and vivid?

Visible World- Quotes and Examples

Exquisite?

Scheherazade-Quotes and Examples

Delicate?

Quotes and Examples

V\Connects to the reader

Tyler: “The book feels like it could save your life, and so you’d die for it, too.” “It’s Siken’s use of repetition that corners the reader, a dizziness surfaces; you’re moving but not going anywhere.” “But this is what the book does: it explores destructive relationships, the voice throughout begging for a place where it can just be safe and loved, but it never finds it. And so it is with the reader: waiting for some resolution between themselves and the book, but the poems never allow for safety, for love, only shove back harder or curl up into themselves wanting to disappear. Yet it is this denial of love, this pulse of aggression and insecurity that forces the reader to return. CRUSH becomes a child, sad and staring at the ground, the one you reach out to comfort, only to realize the child is you.”

Elise Peyrat: “This man reaches inside my guts and pulls out my shame in a way no one ever really has before, and I find it quite terrifying, which is probably why I’m so obsessed with his poetry and will recommend it until the day I die.”

Similar poet: Sylvia Plath – Ariel The Night Dances

Conclusion: “Emily Dickinson famously remarked, “If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can warm me, I know that it is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that it is poetry. These are the only ways I know it. Is there any other way?” -Richard Siken’s poetry collection Crush, which is very poetic because his poem connects to the reader, his poetry is very pictorial, exquisite, and delicate.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Source

 

Crush by Richard Siken

 

Tyler https://www.interabangbooks.com/article/poetry%E2%80%99s-chokehold-look-richard-siken%E2%80%99s-crush

 

Elise Peyrat https://falwriting.com/new-blog/2020/2/14/the-mortifying-ordeals-of-being-known-a-review-of-richard-sikens-crush

 

https://endorsements.livejournal.com/25820.html

 

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