It’s no coincidence that Richard Siken’s Crush, winner of the 2005 Yale Younger Poet prize, can be described with the same vocabulary as an episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer: like the long-running series, Crush is a self-consciously campy work that has become a cult classic. Richard Siken's Crush, selected as the 2004 winner of the Yale Younger Poets prize, is a powerful collection of poems driven by obsession and love. Siken writes with ferocity, and his reader hurtles unstoppably with him. His poetry is confessional, gay, savage, and charged with violent eroticism. Crush by Richard Siken is a collection of poems that uses confessionalism to explore the experiences of a coming of age gay man. Siken uses strong imagery, language, and structure to discuss the themes of abuse, violence, love, and regret throughout the collection. It’s no coincidence that Richard Siken’s Crush, winner of the 2005 Yale Younger Poet prize, can be described with the same vocabulary as an episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer: like the long-running series, Crush is a self-consciously campy work that has become a cult classic. Richard Siken is a poet, painter, filmmaker, and an editor at Spork Press. In her profile of Siken, Nell Casey wrote, “he effectively juxtaposes holy wishes with mundane images—making them both seem beautiful by some strange lyrical alchemy.”.

Richard Siken is a gay American poet, painter, and filmmaker. He is the author of two collections of poetry - Crush (Yale University Press, 2005), which won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition in 2004 and War of the Foxes, which was released from Copper Canyon Press in 2015.
The book Crush is a series of poems described as 'confessional, gay, savage, and charged with violent eroticism', and in part influenced by the death of Siken's boyfriend in 1991. It came out around the time Supernatural started in 2005, and fans soon discovered many parallels between the poems and the show, particularly Sam and Dean's relationship as seen by Wincest shippers. Many fans purchased the book and it inspired many fanworks, and even fan tattoos.

Arpita 2000 gujarati software free. Richard became aware of the popularity of his work in our fandom, and the speculation as to whether his work influenced Supernatural or vice versa.:

There’s an unswayable belief that Crush is already and always has been Wincest. Nothing I say convinces people otherwise, even though Crush was accepted for publication before Supernatural aired. I see the overlap — cars, guns, violence, danger, chasing and escaping, a relationship that seems more than brotherly but not quite romantic — but I think Crush and Supernatural are products of a cultural moment, not products of each other. Source

Siken also said that ' yes, the director of Supernatural read Crush and sent me fan mail', although its unclear if this is referring to Eric Kripke. Source
Richard was later active in Sherlock fandom, and shipping John Watson and Sherlock. He explained why he never felt able to write Wincest fanfic:

I feel honored by the Wincest community but there’s no place for me there. The insistence that everything I’ve done so far is Wincest gives me no wiggle room. I take no offense, I’m proud they found the poems worthy enough to include, but still: no wiggle room. Source

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I can participate in the Sherlock fandom because there’s room for me. It’s impossible to confuse Sherlock and War of the Foxes. I can write Sherlock fanfic like any other fan and not have it confused with my poems. Source

Fanvids

• These, Our Bodies, Possessed By Light by secretlytodream A fan vid set to narration from Richard's poem's 'Scheherezade' and 'Road Music'
• Road Music by Catie
• The Golden Room by balinorsforest with words from Richard Siken's 'Snow and Dirty Rain'

External links

Silken Ace

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• Richard Siken website
• Richard Siken on Tumblr
• The Poet Laureate of Fan Fiction by The Awl
• 'The World Is No Longer Mysterious': Richard Siken, 'Supernatural,' And Why They Correlate by McKinley Catherine Keener
• The metaverse and the vacuum by Richard Siken
• A profile of Richard Siken by the poetry foundation
• Fight Club: Richard Siken by Legacy Russell

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