Crush: Twentieth Anniversary Edition Volume 99 -- Richard Siken, Paperback

The twentieth-anniversary edition of the influential first poetry collection by Richard Siken

An Atlantic choice for "Best American Poetry of the 21st Century (So Far)"

Since winning the 2004 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition, Crush has become a modern classic. This twentieth-anniversary edition includes a new introduction by award-winning poet Dana Levin and a new afterword by the author.

Author: Richard Siken
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 01/20/2026
Pages: 96
Binding Type: Paperback
ISBN: 9780300288698

About the Author
Richard Siken is a poet, painter, and filmmaker. He is the author of War of the Foxes and I Do Know Some Things. Siken lives in Tucson, AZ. Louise Glück was a Nobel Prize-winning poet and the judge of the Yale Series of Younger Poets from 2003 to 2010. Dana Levin is a poet and essayist who teaches at Maryville University and Bennington College. She lives in St. Louis, MO.