Crush Fiction_Gift_Guide Revealing the 15 "beats" (plot

Revealing the 15 "beats" (plot points) that comprise a successful story--from the opening image to the finale--this book lays out the Ten Story Genres (Monster in the House

and class to the forefront of poetical discourse

strangeness and beauty

“At last

Home is a lyrical map to navigating heartbreak

Crush Fiction_Gift_Guide Revealing the 15 "beats" (plotThe 2004 winner of the Yale Younger Poets competition: a powerful, confessional, erotic collection An Atlantic choice for Best American Poetry of the 21st Century (So Far) 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 Sikens Crush,