6/25/2023 0 Comments Richard siken poemsNot, of experience, but the realisation of season? of loss? An object that is both symbolic and real, stationary and formidable, moves, and that movement is departure. Let me pause for a moment at this this stalk that offers three different shades of green.Ī wedge slips in between the routine of days. One particular line stayed with me, and in the morning I woke up with the sentence on my lips - the beginning of Litany… Last night I read many poems from the book again. “If you think the world is a golden place made out of love, then the book is ‘grim,’if you think that life is brutal and short, then the book is uplifting. About the reader’s emotional response to Crush, he says: Haunted by a despair that is connected with the death of his boyfriend in the 1990s, Siken explores intimacy, desire, relationship even as he negotiates the gathering darkness of mortality. The work is considered one of the greatest collections of contemporary American poetry. This happened to me with Richard Siken’s Litany in Which Certain Things are Crossed Out from his award-winning collection Crush published more than 15 years ago. You do not not know why you turned back to them, what light drew you to them again, and suddenly they dance, those words. They wait patiently in pages not accustomed to the light, forgotten after a brief uninspired read. There are some works that sit waiting for you for years.
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