Crush
2004 • 62 pages

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Average rating4.5

15

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.

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Yale Series of Younger Poets

Yale Series of Younger Poets is a 11-book series with 11 released primary works first released in 1956 with contributions by Sean Singer, Carl Phillips, and Airea D. Matthews.


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January 11, 2019

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March 3, 2021

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Took me 13 days to read these few 60 pages: Extremely dense reading. I would read a few poems before stopping and only picking it up days later. “A Primer for the Small Weird Loves” is my favorite.

January 17, 2022

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