{"product_id":"9781784746629","title":"I Do Know Some Things","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Siken, Richard\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eOf specific Gay interest\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished on 26 March 2026 by Vintage Publishing (Chatto \u0026amp; Windus) in the United Kingdom.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback \/ softback | 128 pages\u003cbr\u003e215 x 135 x 13 | 142g\u003cp\u003e'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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRichard 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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'.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘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 Glück‘The immense wingspan of influence that Crush has on 21st-century American poetry cannot be overstated’ Ocean Vuong\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Siken, Richard","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53450949951672,"sku":"9781784746629","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0509\/1953\/8872\/files\/9781784746629.jpg?v=1778342210","url":"https:\/\/octoberbooks.org\/products\/9781784746629","provider":"October Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}