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Crush by Richard Siken
5.0

Siken's visceral writing, dedication to the same aesthetic, heartfelt outpouring of his own stories told through the lens of Henry and Theodore and all the unnamed narrators of these poems, the most punch-to-the-gut descriptions of love and desperation and shame and longing is what makes this collection the best piece of literature I've ever read.