![]() ![]() If to read poems that move past the story form into the crippling beyond of human indictment is to bear witness, then to analyze and speak of them is to give testimony. ![]() A narrative set of poems can sometimes, quite literally, hang together by a single, narrow (sometimes pointless) thread. The poems must command a lyrical space while tying up loose ends. Reading poetry that breathes like a story can be a challenge. ![]() Such difficulty is, in itself, praise of the work.” The last page of Louise Glück’s introduction to Richard Siken’s Crush succinctly phrases the problem of recounting Siken’s magnetizing, operatic work: “In other ways, this introduction has been difficult because of the poems’ interconnectedness, the temptation has been to quote everything. ![]()
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