"Tell me how all this, and love too, will ruin us."
Crush is a collection of poetry by Richard Siken which is drenched in the excruciating addiction to love which addles the narrator. Moreover, the difficulties of pain, both from love and attraction, are fully explored as each word bleeds with desperation experienced through his struggles with homosexuality and absolute panic brought on by obsession.
The collection itself is riddled with such panic, and as a result it holds the reader rapt with interest without. A totalitarian amount of themes holds interest, as the main ones find themselves constantly resurfacing to the forefront - an inescapable emotion displayed with cruel characters and cruel worlds, but which themselves are riddled with an addictive, craveably profound nature.
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