Siken turns over all things and blurs the lines between reality, paintings, landscapes in paintings. He asks questions that we are all afraid to think about. In War of The Foxes, Siken inspects further what it is to be alive. I find that whatever words I may use to describe the effect Richard Siken’s words have on me I will always fall short and appear very shabby. Two people so different, trying to deal with death through their words.Ĭoming to the book, a short collection of about 47 poems that slowly and steadily creep up on you and ravage the core of your soul. Crush, that sang to me and spoke of grief the way Didion did in The Year of Magical Thinking. Crush, that did exactly what the title suggested until I had to deliberately put it out of sight instead of making a big mess of myself that I couldn’t clean up. It’s hard for me to review War of The Foxes without talking about Crush – the book of poetry that preceded it.
“In the wrong light anyone can look like a darkness.” I found in War of The Foxes, wilderness and love, violent and enormous desires too difficult to contain, devotion, self-perception and imagery beyond what I could have imagined without his words. In retrospect, I believe I took from Siken’s words a meaning and understanding different from what he intended to express. Siken came first but I can only put it in reverse chronology for some reason. Richard Siken’s poetry came to me the way Joan Didion’s prose did. The nature, appearance, title of this blog have witnessed drastic and rather dramatic changes but the tagline has not.
They fall just below the title of my page. This is all still mostly a dream for me but I stub my toes and stumble often to realize just how lucky and fortunate I truly am.Īnyone who has followed this blog long enough knows Siken’s words mean the world to me.
What this meant is, I had to wait a long, long time after the book released elsewhere and for a third of the price I had donated to Copper Canyon only because I was going to get a signed copy by Richard Siken. I laid hands on my copy of War of The Foxes through a campaign heralded by a not-for-profit printing company – Copper Canyon Press. Bird 2: All stories are the wrong story when you are impatient.”
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