Crush

“I don’t know much poetry but I know Siken makes me cry. I hate the person that showed me this book but love love. To know love, to be earnest in your art is perhaps the most impossible thing when it is so easy to succumb to apathy.”

“there is something hauntingly romantic yet raw about the poem “Scheherazade.” The first time I read Crush, the book it comes from, I was stunned by Siken’s use of language and structure in his poetry. In my point of view, it evokes how the look and feel of a bruise’s tender pain and beauty.”