![]() ![]() His second book, War of the Foxes, is forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press in 2015. He is a recipient of a Pushcart Prize, two Arizona Commission on the Arts grants, two Lannan Foundation residencies, and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. His poems have appeared in The Iowa Review, Conjunctions, Indiana Review and Forklift, Ohio, as well as in the anthologies The Best American Poetry 2000 and Legitimate Dangers. Richard Siken’s poetry collection Crush won the 2004 Yale Series of Younger Poets prize, a Lambda Literary Award, the Thom Gunn Award, and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Let’s admit, without apology, what we do to each other. Who will master this love? Love might be the wrong word. What can you learn from your opponent? More than you think. People like to think war means something. Everyone wants a battlefield.Īccidents never happen when the room is empty.Įveryone understands this. ![]() Siken describes the poem as “a sideways take on trauma: continued and engaged trauma, rather than hindsight.”Ī man with a bandage is in the middle of something.Įveryone understands this. “Detail of the Fire” will be included in Siken’s forthcoming collection War of Foxes. This is from a collection called Crush, which won the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Men’s Poetry in 2005, as well as the Yale Series of Younger Poets prize. ![]() ![]() We’re delighted to feature in this issue on trauma a single poem by the award-winning poet Richard Siken, whose first collection of poems Crush is an obsessive exploration of the subject. ![]()
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