{"product_id":"9781784746629","title":"I Do Know Some Things - Richard Siken","description":"\u003cp\u003eA 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. 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 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'. 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. `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 Gl�ck`The immense wingspan of influence that Crush has on 21st-century American poetry cannot be overstated' Ocean Vuong\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Richard Siken","offers":[{"title":"128 pages \/ 26\/03\/2026 \/ Poetry","offer_id":56970454729079,"sku":"9781784746629","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0682\/9454\/1624\/files\/9781784746629.jpg?v=1780998234","url":"https:\/\/gulpfictionbooks.com\/products\/9781784746629","provider":"Gulp Fiction","version":"1.0","type":"link"}