literature meme | poets (1/5) RICHARD SIKEN
Richard Siken is an American poet. He is the author of a collection of poetry, Crush, which won the prestigious Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition in 2004, and is the editor of spork literary magazine.
Siken received a Literature Fellowship in Poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts, and his book Crush was awarded the Lambda Literary Award for “Gay Men’s Poetry" in 2005, and the Thom Gunn Award from Publishing Triangle. The 1991 death of his boyfriend influenced his writing of the book.
He wants to be tender
and merciful. That sounds overly valorous.
Sounds like penance. And his hands?
His hands keep turning into birds and
flying away from him. Him being you.
Yes. Do you love yourself? I don’t have to
answer that. It should matter.
Richard Siken, Unfinished Duet (via romeinruins)
LITERATURE MEME | Poets (1/5) – Richard Siken
“I was trying to describe the kingdom, but the letters / kept smudging as I wrote them: the hunter’s heart, / the hunter’s mouth, the trees and the trees and the / space between the trees, swimming in gold. The words / frozen. The creatures frozen. The plum sauce / leaking out of the bag. Explaining will get us nowhere.”
Snow and dirty rain
