Crush Condition:Well Read Eighty-eight percent of the world's

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

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At once wildly comic and strikingly original

The bonds of love transformed me

An international bestseller

Crush Condition:Well Read Eighty-eight percent of the world'sThe 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