In 2001, Siken co-founded Spork Press, where he continues to work as an editor. in psychology and later a Master of Fine Arts in poetry from the University of Arizona. His second book of poems, War of the Foxes, was published by Copper Canyon Press in 2015. He is the author of the collection Crush ( Yale University Press, 2005), which won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition in 2004. Tell me how all this, and love too, will ruin us.Richard Siken (born February 15, 1967) is an American poet, painter, and filmmaker.
Look at the light through the windowpane. I leave you with the gorgeous final lines, which honestly knocked the breath out of me for the rest of the day. Overall, I think Scheherazade is a beautiful and intense piece of poetry and it will stay with me for a long time. Obviously, the poem is not meant to be only an allusion to the story, but the captivating style of the language in the poem certainly invokes Scheherazade’s voice.
I think that the poem’s confusing metaphors („it’s more like a song on a policeman’s radio“) and odd lines („and every time we kissed there was another apple / to slice into pieces“) further add to the fantastical and dream-like quality I mentioned earlier. Tell me about the dream where we pull the bodies out of the lake These remind of the sultan’s plea for Scheherazade to continue her fantastic stories and also serve as an allusion to the regret he might feel of the atrocious murders he’s been committing: Siken’s poem in many aspects recalls this story, for instance in the opening lines. In the end, the sultan decides to change his plan and marries her. Scheherazade is an entrancing storyteller and often ends the night on a cliffhanger, so that the sultan is forced to let her live another day in order to hear the end of each story. She narrates many stories to the sultan Shahryar over the course of 1001 nights in order to prevent him from condemning the women in his kingdom to death in his irrational need to get rid of any woman who could potentially betray him like his wife did.
Scheherazade is a major character in One Thousand and One Nights, a collection of Middle Eastern stories.
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