I Do Know Some Things
$27.36
- Paperback
128 pages
- Release Date
7 July 2026
Summary
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 gro…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781784746629 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1784746622 |
| Author: | Richard Siken |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Chatto & Windus |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 128 |
| Release Date: | 7 July 2026 |
| Weight: | 146g |
| Dimensions: | 12mm x 135mm x 214mm |
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Critics Review
‘What happens when language is let into places where words fail? Here, a transportive experience: naked, vertiginous, defiant — an astonishing illumination of the possibilities in being beside oneself’ * Jeremy Atherton Lin, author of Deep House *
‘This is writing as rebuilding, each sentence placed unwaveringly on the page…Siken is a deadpan virtuoso of the wrongfooting observation, his prose flickering between confessions… A spectacular comeback’ – Jeremy Noel-Tod * Prospect *
‘A remarkable return that thrums with reinvention: of the self, of the prose poem, of the false divide between the everyday and the surreal. Very engaging and exciting’ * Andrew McMillan *
’Siken’s signature intensity still throbs between sentences…In I Do Know Some Things, the risk is not that of desire, as it is in Crush, but that of a different annihilating force: the vanishing of a self’ * Richie Hofmann, The Yale Review *
Direct, moving, disquieting… Siken’s new, flattened style is made up of painstaking, slow-moving sentences and isolated words… I Do Know Some Things is not just a set of prose poems but a book about disability advocacy. Siken’s new work shows him coming to terms with his changed body * London Review of Books *
In…[Siken’s peoms] propulsiveness, narrative strategies and image-making, they are frequently startling. I found the book difficult to put down, and when it was finished I soon wanted to return * Observer *
A deposit of pure gold… an unflinching, disquieting poetic memoir that charts Siken’s stroke, hospitalization, medical bureaucracy and, ultimately, his fragile recovery… Highly recommended * Tablet *
Richard Siken
Richard Siken is a poet and painter. His book Crush won the 2004 Yale Series of Younger Poets prize, selected by Louise Gl ck, a Lambda Literary Award, a Thom Gunn Award, and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. His other books are War of the Foxes and I Do Know Some Things, which was a finalist for the National Book Award. Siken lives in Tucson, Arizona.
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