On the off chance you’re wondering, there isn’t a particular book I’d recommended reading first over the other.
I was a bit of an idiot when I first read this one and by that I mean that I was expecting some sort of companion that directly paralleled the grim nature of Crush, not realizing that there is a decade age gap between the two books and that hey, there is a thing called change. If I were to convey my appreciation for this fine work of art in a more refined and eloquent statement it would be this: I love this book of poetry so much and I don’t know how to deal with it. It’s violent and cruel there’s nothing we can do about it, but we wouldn’t want it any other way. It is a car crash disaster that you cannot look away from. It is divided into three parts and each part relays a love story gone wrong which subsequently follows a turmoil of emotions.
Written because of the death of his boyfriend in 1991, Crush is a beautiful book about terrible, tragic things. CrushSiken’s first book was published in 2005 after winning the Yale Series of Younger Poets,the oldest annual literary award in the United States, in 2004.
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