Richard Siken

I Do Know Some Things

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

'A spectacular comeback' Jeremy Noel Tod, Prospect 'Siken's signature intensity still throbs between sentences' The Yale Review A collection of pitch-perfect prose poems written in the immediate aftermath of a catastrophic stroke. From the author of cult poetry bestseller, Crush. Richard Siken's Crush was an underground international sensation. Twenty years on, he returns with the momentous I Do Know Some Things, cinematic in its tragic vision and emotive force. In 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'. In these seventy-seven prose poems, Siken has forged a new voice at once terrifying and vital. Brave in content and in method, I Do Know Some Things demands his recognition as an essential poet of our times. Praise for Crush: 'Cumulative, driving, apocalyptic power' Louise Glück 'The immense wingspan of influence that Crush has on 21st-century American poetry cannot be overstated' Ocean Vuong

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Vintage Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 128
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. März 2026
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 135mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 350g
• ISBN-13: 9781784746629
• ISBN-10: 1784746622
• Artikelnr.: 75880341

Autorenporträt

Richard Siken