{"product_id":"9781784746629","title":"I Do Know Some Things by Richard Siken","description":"A spectacular comeback' Jeremy Noel Tod, Prospect'Siken's signature intensity still throbs between sentences' The Yale ReviewA 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.   `Thrums with reinvention: of the self, of the prose poem, of the false divide between the everyday and the surreal' Andrew McMillanPraise for Crush:'Cumulative, driving, apocalyptic power' Louise Gl?ck`The immense wingspan of influence that Crush has on 21st-century American poetry cannot be overstated' Ocean Vuong\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56369153966453,"sku":"9781784746629","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781784746629.jpg?v=1763552285","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9781784746629","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}