War of the Foxes av Richard Siken

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<div><p><B>“This may be the most anticipated poetry book of the last decade...expect it to haunt you.”—NPR.org</B><p>In reviewing Richard Siken''s first book, <I>Crush,</I> the <I>New York Times</I> wrote that "his territory is [where] passion and eloquence collide and fuse." In this long-awaited follow-up to <I>Crush,</I> 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, <I>Why paint a bird?</I>—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.</P><p>* "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."—<I>Library Journal</I>, starred review</p><p>"[P]oems of passion, examining what