Richard Siken es un poeta, pintor y cineasta estadounidense cuya obra se caracteriza por una intensa emoción y una poderosa imaginería. Su poesía a menudo explora temas de amor, deseo y violencia con una honestidad inquebrantable. A través de una cautivadora mezcla de lirismo y expresión cruda, Siken crea una voz literaria única que resuena en los lectores que buscan versos profundamente sentidos y formalmente audaces.
In this long-awaited follow-up to Crush, Yale Series of Younger Poets prize-winner Richard Siken turns toward the problems of making and representation, in an unrelenting interrogation of our world of doublings. In this restless, swerving book simple questions—such as, Why paint a bird?—are immediately complicated by concerns of morality, human capacity, and the ways we look to art for meaning and purpose while participating in its—and our own—invention.
A powerful collection of poems driven by obsession reveals a poetry that is at once confessional, gay, savage, and charged with a violent eroticism. Simultaneous.