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is an incredible poet, I don't follow poetry as closely as I once did, but I'll always make sure to follow Siken, His work has the power to make me think and feel deeply in equal measures, and War of the Foxes asks a lot of important questions about the function of art and the nature of simulacra.
I think this book is best accompanied after reading Crush, and best appreciated as Crush's echo, Not as gritty or gripping, not as crippling or as soul wrecking, If Crush wasn't already such a phenomenal, sublime book, War of the Foxes would be my favorite poetry book,

To not compare the two is hard, War of the Foxes on its own is a complex and subtle book of dense metaphor, For many it can be a bit inaccessible, Its exploration of the aftershocks of a situation in life and its enlightened view on how to cope with these effects is intriguing, I'm wording things vaguely to avoid poisoning the well of thought as it's such a dynamic book to different people, my interpretation can spoil other's, Richard Sikens second publish is just as awe inspiring and unique as his first,
As an avid poetry reader, I believe some authors seem to disappoint when compared to their first big publish,
Crush was groundbreaking, and I assumed a follow up release wouldnt hit the same, but his second book is just as intense and new,
Richard has such a unique voice through his writing that I have never experienced before, The emotion is so intense, I found I needed to be in a certain mood for his words to not completely wash over me into my daily life,
In his first book Crush, I found his writing was very specific, you could feel the inner turmoil and pain and you knew it was his, In War of the Foxes, he leaves his writings open, Im assuming for the interpretation of the reader, These writings all had a theme like in his last, which was painting,
Overall, Sikens blows it out of the water yet again, he absorbs his reader, and keeps them captive with his addicting prose,
Give him a shot, I assure you, youve never read poetry like this before, If you're buying this book based off of love for poetry and vivid view points on love and life, you've come to the right place, If you're looking for a book to come close to Siken's first book,Crush then maybe this isn't the right place for you, Where Siken's first book was blunt and raw, the new book is in depth and takes some deciphering, Either way, it's filled with emotion and passion that is hard to come by in this day and age I've had this book for a while now and never got around to reviewing it.
I am a fiction writer with a frustrating relationship with poetry, I want to love it, but a lot of it comes difficult to me, Something about this book is different, The poems still feel kind of like puzzles that I can't quite solve, but the way that they're braided with heavy art themes pull me in and make me want to read them over and over and over.
The diction is stunning it's like taking a museum tour and all the beautiful, indescribable art is here, in this book, in words, On the other end of the spectrum, the art is contrasted with heavy war themes, highlighting the beauty all around, This book makes me want to pull it out and analyze it as much as I want to just read through and take it all in, Surprisingly, I give it a spot in my top favorite books of all time usually reserved for fiction and recommend it as often as I can even though it's really one of those books that I want to keep to myself, like it was made for me.
More philosophical than Crush, though still exactly what you'd expect from Richard Siken powerful narratives, striking images, the indefinite boundaries and subtleties of inner conflict and loss, Beautiful work. I think this volume is going to stay with me, much like Crush did, War of the Foxes is in some ways subtle, and the poems here took me longer to digest, but they lingered with me, The imagery is quiet, powerful, strong, If you like Siken, you already know you'll have to read this, I picked this book up because I fell in love with Crush, Unfortunately, this book didn't feel like it came from the same author, Siken lost the magic of his first collection here, While the poems were enjoyable, to me, they were mediocre, What happened to the urgency, the fire of his first book For me, I spent my entire time reading this just hoping to find it, There are glimmers of hope and beauty here, bu for the most part, I was disappointed, Siken's poetry is honestly magical, and Foxes is full of rich imagery steeped in art and nature, It's quite different to Crush, so don't buy Foxes expecting of that raw and often visceral verse that was in Siken's first collection the feeling you get from Foxes is a lot ambiguous, especially considering its central theme of how we look to art for answers to moral and philosophical questions.
Foxes presents itself much the same: some of the poems are not as clear cut as in Crush, and might leave you unsatisfied with how up in the air their meaning, but I feel that's the point too.
Art raises discussion, after all, The titular poem is probably my favourite in the book, and really stands out from the rest,

tldr enjoyed Foxes, preferred Crush, but both are stellar collections, Very profound and though provoking poetry but subtle and restrained that debut crush Like the blank canvas slowly being coloured, this book takes you by surprise, moving you, touching you, haunting you.

I can't wait to read of Siken, The cover tricked me. I have read a lot of anthologies about nature, I thought this was going to be another one, This poet knocked me off my feet, The collection is so raw and vulnerable, It's a soft panic that put me through a quiet ringer, Well done! This may be the most anticipated poetry book of the last decadeexpect it to haunt you, NPR. orgIn 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 questionssuch as, Why paint a birdare immediately complicated by concerns of morality, human capacity, and the ways we look to art for meaning and purpose while participating in itsand our owninvention.
"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"Poems of passion, examining what it means to love, to be, and to create, "Vanity Fair"Sikens stark, startling collection focuses tightly on both the futility and the importance of creating art, "BooklistPoems 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, Sikens sense of line has become uniform, this steadiness punctuated by moments of cinematic urgency, Publishers Weekly"War of the Foxes builds upon the lush and frantic magic of Richard Sikens first book, Crush, In this second book, Siken takes breathtaking control of the rich, varied material he has chosenSiken paints and erasesthe 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 RumpusThe MuseumTwo 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, .