In the foreword to Crush, competition judge Louise Glück hails the "cumulative, driving, apocalyptic power, [and] purgatorial recklessness ” of Siken’s poems. She notes, “ Books of this kind dream big ... . They restore to poetry that sense of crucial moment and crucial utterance which may indeed be the great genius of the form. ”
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