Richard Siken, SPN, Economic Lives

True fangirl confessions: I wrote Richard Siken a note about how much I liked Crush, and how I saw lots of continuities between his poetry, SPN, and the Mountain Goats in their treatment of masculinity/violence/drinking/desire/road trips/that general constellation of Americana. He wrote back noting that Crush predated SPN (which I knew, truly!) but indicating that he knew of the SPN/Siken correspondences through the power of the internet. Heh.

( spoilers believe in miracles )

( economies of desire )