Crush Condition:Well Read from our dogged pursuit of

from our dogged pursuit of status and happiness to our constant quest to overcome death by pushing the boundaries of science

At once wildly comic and strikingly original

Eighty-eight percent of the world's population outside the West is rising to Western living standards

An international bestseller

from terrorism to shark attacks

Crush Condition:Well Read from our dogged pursuit ofThe 2004 winner of the Yale Younger Poets competition: a powerful, confessional, erotic collection Finalist for the 2005 National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry "Siken writes about love, desire, violence, and eroticism with a cinematic brilliance and urgency that makes this one of the best books of contemporary poetry." Victoria Chang, Huffington Post Richard Siken's Crush, selected as the 2004 winner of the Yale Younger Poets prize, is a