Siken's sense of line has become more uniform, this steadiness punctuated by moments of cinematic urgency.'- Publishers Weekly Animals, landscapes, objects, and an array of characters serve as sites for big, human questions to play out in distilled form. 'Poems primarily about painting and representation give way to images that become central characters in a sequence of fable-like pieces. Siken's stark, startling collection focuses tightly on both the futility and the importance of creating art.- Booklist Oems of passion, examining what it means to love, to be, and to create.- Vanity Fair * Slippery, magnetic riffs on the arbitrary divisions made by the human mind in light of the mathematical abstractions that delete them poetry lovers will want to read.- Library Journal, starred review In this restless, swerving book simple questions-such as, Why paint a bird?-are immediately complicated by concerns of morality, human capacity, and the ways we look to art for meaning and purpose while participating in its-and our own-invention. In this long-awaited follow-up to Crush, Siken turns toward the problems of making and representation, in an unrelenting interrogation of our world of doublings. In reviewing Richard Siken's first book, Crush, the New York Times wrote that his territory is passion and eloquence collide and fuse. He is also a full-time social worker.'This may be the most anticipated poetry book of the last decade.expect it to haunt you.' His most recent book is 'War of the Foxes.' He is a recipient of a Pushcart Prize, two Arizona Commission on the Arts grants, and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. It was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Lambda Literary Award, and the Thomas Gunn Award. His book 'Crush' won the 2004 Yale Series of Younger Poets prize, selected by Louise Gluck. Siken is a poet, painter, filmmaker, and an editor at Spork Press. The Department of English, the Creative Writing Program and the LGBTQ Center are sponsors. The events are free and open to the public. roundtable discussion in Schleman Hall, Room B038, sponsored by the LGBTQ Center. On March 24, Siken is the guest for a 4:30 p.m. Wednesday (March 23) in Neil Armstrong Hall of Engineering, Room 1109. In addition to the reading, Siken also will conduct two additional sessions.

March 23 in Krannert Auditorium, Room 140 at Purdue University.

Poet Richard Siken will be a Literary Reading Series featured reader at 7:30 p.m.

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