{"product_id":"i-do-know-some-things-by-richard-siken-9781784746629","title":"I Do Know Some Things","description":"A collection of pitch-perfect prose poems written in the immediate aftermath of a catastrophic stroke. From the author of cult poetry bestseller, Crush\n\n'A spectacular comeback' Jeremy Noel Tod, Prospect\n'Siken's signature intensity still throbs between sentences' The Yale Review\n\nA collection of pitch-perfect prose poems written in the immediate aftermath of a catastrophic stroke. From the author of cult poetry bestseller, Crush.\nRichard 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.\n\nIn 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'.\n\nIn 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.\n\n'Thrums with reinvention- of the self, of the prose poem, of the false divide between the everyday and the surreal' Andrew McMillan\n\nPraise for Crush-\n\n'Cumulative, driving, apocalyptic power' Louise Gl ck\n\n'The immense wingspan of influence that Crush has on 21st-century American poetry cannot be overstated' Ocean Vuong","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47288513626348,"sku":"9781784746629","price":35.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781784746629.jpg?v=1770559572","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/i-do-know-some-things-by-richard-siken-9781784746629","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}