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War of the Foxes - by Richard Siken (Paperback)

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  • "This may be the most anticipated poetry book of the last decade...expect it to haunt you."-NPR.org"Richard Siken writes about love, desire, violence, and eroticism with a cinematic brilliance and urgency.
  • About the Author: Richard Siken's first book, Crush, won the Yale Younger Poets' Prize in 2004, and became a poetry best-seller.
  • 96 Pages
  • Poetry, American

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About the Book



Best-selling poet and painter Richard Siken uses strong, bold strokes to reveal a world abstract, concrete, and exquisitely complex.



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"This may be the most anticipated poetry book of the last decade...expect it to haunt you."-NPR.org


"Richard Siken writes about love, desire, violence, and eroticism with a cinematic brilliance and urgency."--Huffington Post


In reviewing Richard Siken's first book, Crush, the New York Times wrote that "his territory is [where] passion and eloquence collide and fuse." 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 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.


"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


"[P]oems of passion, examining what it means to love, to be, and to create."--Vanity Fair


"Siken's stark, startling collection focuses tightly on both the futility and the importance of creating art."--Booklist


"Poems primarily about painting and representation give way to images that become central characters in a sequence of fable-like pieces. Animals, landscapes, objects, and an array of characters serve as sites for big, human questions to play out in distilled form. Siken's sense of line has become more uniform, this steadiness punctuated by moments of cinematic urgency."--Publishers Weekly


"War of the Foxes builds upon the lush and frantic magic of Richard Siken's first book, Crush. In this second book, Siken takes breathtaking control of the rich, varied material he has chosen...Siken paints and erases--the metaphor of painting with words allows him to leave those traces that mostly go unseen. He is the Trickster. If paint/then no paint. He does this with astonishing candor and passion."--The Rumpus


The Museum


Two lovers went to the museum and wandered the rooms.
He saw a painting and stood in front of it
for too long. It was a few minutes before she
realized he had gotten stuck. He was stuck looking
at a painting. She stood next to him, looking at his
face and then the face in the painting. What do you
see? she asked. I don't know, he said. He didn't
know. She was disappointed, then bored. He was
looking at a face and she was looking at her watch.
This is where everything changed . . .


Richard Siken is a poet, painter, and filmmaker. His first book, Crush, won the Yale Younger Poets' prize. He lives in Tucson, Arizona.



About the Author



Richard Siken's first book, Crush, won the Yale Younger Poets' Prize in 2004, and became a poetry best-seller. He co-founded and currently edits the magazine spork and lives in Tucson, Arizona.

Dimensions (Overall): 8.9 Inches (H) x 5.83 Inches (W) x .32 Inches (D)
Weight: .15 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 96
Genre: Poetry
Sub-Genre: American
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Format: Paperback
Author: Richard Siken
Language: English
Street Date: April 28, 2015
TCIN: 82942884
UPC: 9781556594779
Item Number (DPCI): 247-09-4398
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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