ampampquotThis may be the most anticipated poetry book of the last decade.expect it to haunt you.ampampquot.ampampamp34Richard Siken writes about love desire violence and eroticism with a cinematic brilliance and urgency.ampampamp34ampampamp8212Huffington Postampampamp10In reviewing Richard Sikens first book Crush the New York Times wrote that ampampamp34his territory is where passion and eloquence collide and fuse.ampampamp34 In this longawaited followup 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 questionsampampamp8212such as Why paint a birdampampamp8212are immediately complicated by concerns of morality human capacity and the ways we look to art for meaning and purpose while participating in itsampampamp8212and our ownampampamp8212invention.ampampamp10ampampamp34Slippery 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.ampampamp34ampampamp8212Library Journal starred reviewampampamp10ampampamp34Poems of passion examining what it means to love to be and to create.ampampamp34ampampamp8212Vanity Fairampampamp10ampampamp34Sikens stark startling collection focuses tightly on both the futility and the importance of creating art.ampampamp34ampampamp8212Booklistampampamp10ampampamp8220Poems primarily about painting and representation give way to images that become central characters in a sequence of fablelike pieces. Animals landscapes objects and an array of characters serve as sites for big human questions to play out in distilled form.