{"product_id":"9781784746629-i-do-know-some-things","title":"I Do Know Some Things","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A spectacular comeback' Jeremy Noel Tod, \u003ci\u003eProspect\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Siken’s signature intensity still throbs between sentences' \u003ci\u003eThe Yale Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA collection of pitch-perfect prose poems written in the immediate aftermath of a catastrophic stroke. From the author of cult poetry bestseller, \u003ci\u003eCrush.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRichard Siken’s \u003ci\u003eCrush \u003c\/i\u003ewas an underground international sensation. Twenty years on, he returns with the momentous\u003ci\u003e I Do Know Some Things\u003c\/i\u003e, cinematic in its tragic vision and emotive force.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the aftermath of a stroke, the poet’s language and much of his memory is, for a time, wiped out. As his mind gropes its way back from oblivion, the scenery flickers between memories of a ruptured childhood and queer coming-of-age, and the precipice of the present. Each poem is a room in a ‘house owned by ghosts'.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn these seventy-seven prose poems, Siken has forged a new voice at once terrifying and vital. Brave in content and in method,\u003ci\u003e I Do Know Some Things\u003c\/i\u003e demands his recognition as an essential poet of our times.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘Thrums with reinvention: of the self, of the prose poem, of the false divide between the everyday and the surreal’ Andrew McMillan\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eCrush:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e'\u003c\/i\u003eCumulative, driving, apocalyptic power' Louise Glück\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘The immense wingspan of influence that \u003ci\u003eCrush \u003c\/i\u003ehas on 21st-century American poetry cannot be overstated’ Ocean Vuong\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56642959868278,"sku":"9781784746629","price":10.77,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_39475665_624725c0-5a18-477c-b02b-750f066d8c78.jpg?v=1768466916","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781784746629-i-do-know-some-things","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}