{"product_id":"i-do-know-some-things","title":"I Do Know Some Things","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTwenty 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEach 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e‘Thrums with reinvention: of the self, of the prose poem, of the false divide between the everyday and the surreal’ Andrew McMillan,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePraise for Crush:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e'A spectacular comeback' Jeremy Noel Tod, Prospect\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e'Cumulative, driving, apocalyptic power' Louise Glück,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e‘The immense wingspan of influence that Crush has on 21st-century American poetry cannot be overstated’ Ocean Vuong.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e'Siken’s signature intensity still throbs between sentences' The Yale Review\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Richard Siken","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56537959104892,"sku":"9781784746629","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0427\/9412\/3414\/files\/9781784746629_1.jpg?v=1774454315","url":"https:\/\/www.queerlit.co.uk\/products\/i-do-know-some-things","provider":"Queer Lit","version":"1.0","type":"link"}