- Imprint: Chatto & Windus
- ISBN: 9781784746629
- Length: 128 pages
- Price: £12.99
Jeremy Atherton Lin, author of Deep House'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 Noel-Tod, Prospect'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'
Andrew McMillan'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’
Richie Hofmann, The Yale Review'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'
About Richard Siken
Richard Siken is a poet and painter. His book Crush won the 2004 Yale Series of Younger Poets prize, selected by Louise Glück, 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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