In this long-awaited follow-up to Crush, Yale Series of Younger Poets prize-winner Richard 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.
Filled with truths and fabrications, the poems in War of the Foxes investigate the fallacies and epiphanies inherent in any search for perfect order or truth. Violently romantic, Siken's poetry takes the self and turns it, over and over, in an unsettling conflation of thought, dream, and speech. Sometimes brutal and frank, often tender and compassionate, Richard Siken has created an ambitious sequence of poems that secures his reputation as one of the most compelling poets writing today.
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In this long-awaited follow-up to Crush, Yale Series of Younger Poets prize-winner Richard 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. Filled with truths and fabrications, the poems in War of the Foxes investigate the fallacies and epiphanies inherent in any search for perfect order or truth. Violently romantic, Siken's poetry takes the self and turns it, over and over, in an unsettling conflation of thought, dream, and speech. Sometimes brutal and frank, often tender and compassionate, Richard Siken has created an ambitious sequence of poems that secures his reputation as one of the most compelling poets writing today.