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Feb 27, 2006 - In Crush, Richard Siken writes his way into an unforgettable zone of loss and panic. A winner of the Yale Younger Poets Prize, Siken talks to. Oct 24, 2011 - I emailed Richard Siken this question: Explanations and biography can (in my opinion) kill a poem. I feel this way mostly because I see truth as.
Richard Siken quotesTeaching 1-30 of 177
“You're in a vehicle with a wonderful young man, and he received't tell you that he enjoys you, but he likes you. And you feel like you've performed something horrible, like robbed a alcohol shop, or swallowed pills, or shoveled yourself a burial plot in the dust, and you're exhausted. You're also in a car with a beautiful young man, and you're also trying not really to inform him that you appreciate him, and you're also attempting to choke down the feeling, and you're shaking, but he reaches over and he touches you, like a prayer for which no words can be found, and you experience your center taking origin in your body, like you've found out something you didn't actually have got a title for.”
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“Eventually something you love is going to be taken apart. And then you will drop to the flooring weeping. And then, however much later, it can be finally occurring to you: you're dropping to the floor crying thinking, “I have always been falling to the flooring sobbing,” but now there's an component of the ridiculous to it - you understood it would take place and, also worse, while you're also on the floor sobbing you look at the place where the wall structure fulfills the flooring and you realize you didn't paint it really nicely.”
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“Tell me how all this, and appreciate as well, will spoil us.
These, our systems, had by lighting.
Inform me we'll certainly not get utilized to it.”
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These, our systems, had by lighting.
Inform me we'll certainly not get utilized to it.”
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“We possess not handled the celebrities,
nor are usually we forgiven, which brings us back
to the main character's shoulder muscles and the gentleness that comes,
not really from the lack of violence, but despite
the variety of it.”
―
nor are usually we forgiven, which brings us back
to the main character's shoulder muscles and the gentleness that comes,
not really from the lack of violence, but despite
the variety of it.”
―
“Sorry about the bloodstream in your mouth area. I desire it has been mine.
I couldn't get the boy to destroy me, but I wore his jacket for the longest time.”
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I couldn't get the boy to destroy me, but I wore his jacket for the longest time.”
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“A new man will take his sadness down to the water and punches it in the water
but then he's still left
with the water. A guy will take his sadness and tosses it aside
but after that he's still left with his hands.”
―
but then he's still left
with the water. A guy will take his sadness and tosses it aside
but after that he's still left with his hands.”
―
“We'm fighting enemies, I'meters tugging you out of the burning up structures/ and you sayI'll give you anythingbut you never come by means of.”
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“Show me about the fantasy where we draw the physiques out of the river
and gown them in warm clothes once again.
How it had been past due, and no one particular could rest, the horses operating
until they forget that they are usually horses.
It'h not like a woods where the roots possess to end someplace,
it't more like a song on a policeman's radio,
how we folded upward the floor covering so we could dance, and the times
had been bright reddish colored, and every time we kissed there was another apple company
to cut into parts.
Appear at the light through the windowpane. That means it's noon, that indicates
we're inconsolable.
Inform me how all this, and appreciate as well, will mess up us.
These, our systems, held by light.
Inform me we'll by no means get used to it.”
―
and gown them in warm clothes once again.
How it had been past due, and no one particular could rest, the horses operating
until they forget that they are usually horses.
It'h not like a woods where the roots possess to end someplace,
it't more like a song on a policeman's radio,
how we folded upward the floor covering so we could dance, and the times
had been bright reddish colored, and every time we kissed there was another apple company
to cut into parts.
Appear at the light through the windowpane. That means it's noon, that indicates
we're inconsolable.
Inform me how all this, and appreciate as well, will mess up us.
These, our systems, held by light.
Inform me we'll by no means get used to it.”
―
“Everyone needs a place. It shouldn't end up being inside of someone else.”
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“The method you slam your entire body into mine reminds me I'meters alive, but monsters are usually hungry, favorite, and they're also only a few tips behind you, finding the flaw, the bad weld, the location where we weren't sewn up quite right, the location they could nearly slip right into through if the skin wasn't attempting to keep them out, to keep them right here, on the some other side of the theater where the curtain keeps rising. I indexed out the windows and ran into the hardwoods. I had to make up all the words myself. The way they flavor, the method they appear in the air. I exceeded through the slim gate, happened in, stumbled around for a even though, and stumbled back away. I produced this location for you. A location for to love me. If this isn't a empire then I put on't understand what can be.”
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“You proceed to work the following day pretending nothing at all occurred.
Your co-workers question
if everything't okay and you tell them
you're simply exhausted.
And you're attempting to smile. And they're trying to grin.”
―
Your co-workers question
if everything't okay and you tell them
you're simply exhausted.
And you're attempting to smile. And they're trying to grin.”
―
“We've long been rereading your story. I think it'beds about me in a method that might not really be lovely, but that's i9000 okay. We wish and fantasy of getting observed as we really are usually and after that finally someone looks at us and sees us truly and we fail to measure up. Anyway: story received, story included. You appeared at me longer plenty of to see something mysterioso under all the gruff and bluster. Thanks a lot. Occasionally you get so near to somebody you end up on the various other part of them.”
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“We sleep. I dream. I make up stuff that I would never ever say. I state them very silently.”
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“If you adore me, Holly, you wear't appreciate me in a method I recognize.”
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“Imagine that the entire world is made out of like. Now imagine that it isn't. Think about a tale where everything will go wrong, where everyone provides their back against the wall structure, where everyone is usually in discomfort and performing selfishly because if they wear't, they'll pass away. Envision a tale, not of great against bad, but of want against need against want, where everyone is at cross-purposes and everyone is usually to fault.”
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“Every morning the walnut results in.
Every morning another section where the hero shifts
from one foot to the various other. Every morning hours the exact same big
and little words and phrases all spelling out wish, all spelling out
You will end up being alone often and then you will die.
So probably I desired to provide you something even more than a collection
of non-definitive acts,
something various other than the desperation.
Dear So-and-So, I'michael sorry I couldn't arrive to your celebration.
Beloved So-and-So, I'm sorry I emerged to your party
and seduced you
and still left you bruised and destroyed, you poor sad issue.
You would like a better story. Who wouldn't?
A forest, then. Gorgeous trees and shrubs. And a woman performing.
Love on the drinking water, love underwater, love, love and therefore on.
What a sweet lady. Sing lady, sing! Of training course, she wakes the dragon.
Like often wakes the dragon and instantly
flames just about everywhere.
I can tell currently you think I'meters the dragon,
that would be so like me, but I'michael not really. I'm not the dragon.
I'meters not really the little princess possibly.
Who have always been I? I'meters simply a writer. I create things down.
I walk through your desires and invent the potential. Sure,
I sink the vessel of love, but that arrives later. And yes, I swallow
glass, but that comes later.
Let me do it best for as soon as,
for the report, let me create a point of cream and celebrities that gets to be,
you know the story, simply bliss.
Inside your head you listen to a mobile phone ringing
and when you open your eye
only a cleaning with deer in it. Hello deer.
Inside your head the audio of cup,
a vehicle crash audio as the trucks roll more than and explode in slow motion.
Hello favorite, bad about that.
Sorry about the bony elbows, i am sorry we
lived here, remorseful about the scene at the bottom part of the stairwell
and how I ruined everything by saying it out high in volume.
Especially that, but I should possess known.
Inside your head you listen to
a phone calling, and when you open up your eye you're cleaning up
in a stranger's restroom,
standing up by the screen in a yellow towel, just twenty mins apart
from the dirtiest factor you know.
All the rooms of the castle except this one, states someone, and abruptly
night,
all of a sudden only darkness.
In the lifestyle area, in the broken backyard,
in the back of the car as the lamps move by. In the airport terminal
restroom's gurgle and flush, bathed in a pharmacy of
unnatural light,
my fingers looking odd, my face strange, my ft too far apart.
I came in the town and you met me at the station,
smiling in a method
that produced me scared. Down the alley, around the arcade,
up the stairways of the developing
to the little room with the damaged faucets, your sketches, all your factors,
I appeared out the window and said
This doesn't look that much various from house,
because it didn't,
but after that I observed the dark heavens and all those lighting.
We were inside the train car when I began to cry. You were crying as well,
smiling and weeping in a way that made me
actually even more hysterical. You said I could have anything I wished, but I
simply couldn't say it out high decibel.
In fact, you said Like, for you,
can be larger than the normal romantic like. It's like a religious beliefs. It'h
terrifying. No one
will actually would like to sleep with you.
Okay, if you're so great, you perform it-
here's the pencil, make it work …
If the screen is usually on your perfect, you are in your own bed. If the window
is over your heart, and it is painted close, then we are inhaling and exhaling
river drinking water.
Dear Forgiveness, you know that lately
we have experienced our troubles and there are usually many items
I want to question you.
I tried that one period, high college, second lunch time, and then again,
years later, in the chlorinated swimming pool.
I feel still talking to you about assist. I nevertheless do not really have got
these luxuries.
I possess told you where I'meters arriving from, so place it together.
I desire more applesauce. I would like more seats appropriated for characters.
Beloved Forgiveness, I rescued a dish for you.
Quit milling around the backyard and come inside.”
―
Every morning another section where the hero shifts
from one foot to the various other. Every morning hours the exact same big
and little words and phrases all spelling out wish, all spelling out
You will end up being alone often and then you will die.
So probably I desired to provide you something even more than a collection
of non-definitive acts,
something various other than the desperation.
Dear So-and-So, I'michael sorry I couldn't arrive to your celebration.
Beloved So-and-So, I'm sorry I emerged to your party
and seduced you
and still left you bruised and destroyed, you poor sad issue.
You would like a better story. Who wouldn't?
A forest, then. Gorgeous trees and shrubs. And a woman performing.
Love on the drinking water, love underwater, love, love and therefore on.
What a sweet lady. Sing lady, sing! Of training course, she wakes the dragon.
Like often wakes the dragon and instantly
flames just about everywhere.
I can tell currently you think I'meters the dragon,
that would be so like me, but I'michael not really. I'm not the dragon.
I'meters not really the little princess possibly.
Who have always been I? I'meters simply a writer. I create things down.
I walk through your desires and invent the potential. Sure,
I sink the vessel of love, but that arrives later. And yes, I swallow
glass, but that comes later.
Let me do it best for as soon as,
for the report, let me create a point of cream and celebrities that gets to be,
you know the story, simply bliss.
Inside your head you listen to a mobile phone ringing
and when you open your eye
only a cleaning with deer in it. Hello deer.
Inside your head the audio of cup,
a vehicle crash audio as the trucks roll more than and explode in slow motion.
Hello favorite, bad about that.
Sorry about the bony elbows, i am sorry we
lived here, remorseful about the scene at the bottom part of the stairwell
and how I ruined everything by saying it out high in volume.
Especially that, but I should possess known.
Inside your head you listen to
a phone calling, and when you open up your eye you're cleaning up
in a stranger's restroom,
standing up by the screen in a yellow towel, just twenty mins apart
from the dirtiest factor you know.
All the rooms of the castle except this one, states someone, and abruptly
night,
all of a sudden only darkness.
In the lifestyle area, in the broken backyard,
in the back of the car as the lamps move by. In the airport terminal
restroom's gurgle and flush, bathed in a pharmacy of
unnatural light,
my fingers looking odd, my face strange, my ft too far apart.
I came in the town and you met me at the station,
smiling in a method
that produced me scared. Down the alley, around the arcade,
up the stairways of the developing
to the little room with the damaged faucets, your sketches, all your factors,
I appeared out the window and said
This doesn't look that much various from house,
because it didn't,
but after that I observed the dark heavens and all those lighting.
We were inside the train car when I began to cry. You were crying as well,
smiling and weeping in a way that made me
actually even more hysterical. You said I could have anything I wished, but I
simply couldn't say it out high decibel.
In fact, you said Like, for you,
can be larger than the normal romantic like. It's like a religious beliefs. It'h
terrifying. No one
will actually would like to sleep with you.
Okay, if you're so great, you perform it-
here's the pencil, make it work …
If the screen is usually on your perfect, you are in your own bed. If the window
is over your heart, and it is painted close, then we are inhaling and exhaling
river drinking water.
Dear Forgiveness, you know that lately
we have experienced our troubles and there are usually many items
I want to question you.
I tried that one period, high college, second lunch time, and then again,
years later, in the chlorinated swimming pool.
I feel still talking to you about assist. I nevertheless do not really have got
these luxuries.
I possess told you where I'meters arriving from, so place it together.
I desire more applesauce. I would like more seats appropriated for characters.
Beloved Forgiveness, I rescued a dish for you.
Quit milling around the backyard and come inside.”
―
“The blond son in the red trunks is certainly holding your head underwater because he is usually attempting to eliminate you, and you deserve it, you perform, and you know this, and you are usually ready to die in this going swimming swimming pool because you needed to touch his fingers and lips and this means your lifetime is usually over anyway. You're in eighth quality. You know these points. You know how to ride a dirt bike, and you know how to do long division, and you understand that a son who loves boys will be a inactive child, unless he keeps his mouth area shut, which is definitely what you didn't do, because you are usually poor and hollow and it doesn't issue any more.”
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―
“He or she was aiming at the moon, but I was looking at his hand.”
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“Hello, favorite. Sorry about that. Sorry about the bony elbows, sorry we lived here, sorry about the scene at the bottom of the stairwell and how I destroyed everything by stating it out loud. Especially that, but I should possess recognized. You find, I consider the components that I remember and stitch them back together to create a monster that will perform what I say or love me back again.”
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“All night I streched my hands across
him, rivers of blood, the dark woods, singing
with all my epidermis and bone 'Please make sure to keep him safe.
Let him lay down his mind on my upper body and we will become
like sailors, going swimming in the sound of it, dashed
to pieces.' Can make a cathedral, him pushing against
me, his lips at my neck, and yes, I perform think
his mouth area is bliss, his kisses dropping over me like celebrities.”
―
him, rivers of blood, the dark woods, singing
with all my epidermis and bone 'Please make sure to keep him safe.
Let him lay down his mind on my upper body and we will become
like sailors, going swimming in the sound of it, dashed
to pieces.' Can make a cathedral, him pushing against
me, his lips at my neck, and yes, I perform think
his mouth area is bliss, his kisses dropping over me like celebrities.”
―
“I actually woke up in the morning hours and I didn't want anything, didn't do anything, couldn'testosterone levels do it anyway, just place there hearing to the blood hurry
through me and it in no way produced any feeling, anything.”
―
through me and it in no way produced any feeling, anything.”
―
“You're also falling today. You're also swimming. This is certainly not really
safe. You are not
respiration.”
―
safe. You are not
respiration.”
―
“Say to me we're useless and I'll like you actually more.”
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“Right here is certainly the recurring image of the sweetheart demolished.”
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“Is that too very much to anticipate? That I would title the celebrities
for you? That I would consider you presently there? The splash
of my language burning you like a glucose cube?”
―
for you? That I would consider you presently there? The splash
of my language burning you like a glucose cube?”
―
“You observe, I get the parts that I remember and stitch them back again together to make a monster that will perform what I state or enjoy me back.”
―
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“I actually acquired a fantasy about you. We had been in the platinum area
where everyone finally will get what they would like.
You stated Tell me about your textbooks, your dreams produced
of skin and lighting and I stated This will be the Moon. This can be
the Sunlight. Let me title the stars for you. Allow me get you
now there. The little of my tongue burning you like a glucose
cube…We had been in the silver space where everyone
finally gets what they would like, therefore I stated What do you
need, lover? and you said Kiss me. Right here I have always been
leaving you hints. I have always been singing now while Rome
melts away. We are usually all simply trying to be holy. My applejack,
my noiseless night, just mash your lips against me.
We are usually all heading forward. None of them of us are going back.”
―
where everyone finally will get what they would like.
You stated Tell me about your textbooks, your dreams produced
of skin and lighting and I stated This will be the Moon. This can be
the Sunlight. Let me title the stars for you. Allow me get you
now there. The little of my tongue burning you like a glucose
cube…We had been in the silver space where everyone
finally gets what they would like, therefore I stated What do you
need, lover? and you said Kiss me. Right here I have always been
leaving you hints. I have always been singing now while Rome
melts away. We are usually all simply trying to be holy. My applejack,
my noiseless night, just mash your lips against me.
We are usually all heading forward. None of them of us are going back.”
―
“Here I have always been
departing you clues. I am singing today while Rome
melts away. We are usually all simply trying to end up being holy. My applejack,
my private night, simply mash your lip area against me.
We are all heading forward. None of them of us are usually going back.”
―
departing you clues. I am singing today while Rome
melts away. We are usually all simply trying to end up being holy. My applejack,
my private night, simply mash your lip area against me.
We are all heading forward. None of them of us are usually going back.”
―
“Moonlight making crosses
on your body, and me putting my mouth on every one.”
―
on your body, and me putting my mouth on every one.”
―
“We still groped for each other on the backstairs or in parked cars
as the road around us
increased polished with ice and our breathing softened the see through the cup
currently laced with ice,
but even more regularly I had been acquiring myself sleepless, and he had been working out of
lullabies.
But damn if there isn't anything more sexy
than a slender child with a hand gun,
a quick car, a bottle of tablets.”
―
as the road around us
increased polished with ice and our breathing softened the see through the cup
currently laced with ice,
but even more regularly I had been acquiring myself sleepless, and he had been working out of
lullabies.
But damn if there isn't anything more sexy
than a slender child with a hand gun,
a quick car, a bottle of tablets.”
―
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Writer: | Richard Siken |
First Title: | Grind |
Book Structure: | Book |
Quantity Of Pages: | 62 webpages |
First Published in: | April 11tl 2005 |
Latest Model: | April 11tl 2005 |
ISBN Amount: | 9780300107890 |
Vocabulary: | British |
Awards: | Thom Gunn Honor for Gay Poems (2006), Country wide Book Critics Circle Prize Nominee for Poems (2005), Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition (2004) |
category: | poetry, lgbt, glbt, queer, seduction |
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