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The long-anticipated third collection from the revered Richard Siken delivers his most personal and introspective collection yet.
Richard Sikens long-anticipated third collection, I Do Know Some Things, navigates the ruptured landmarks of family trauma: a mother abandons her son, a husband chooses death over his wife. While excavating these losses, personal history unfolds. We witness Siken experience the death of a boyfriend and a stroke that is neglectfully misdiagnosed as a panic attack. Here, we grapple with a body forgetting itselfthe mind that / didnt work, the leg that wouldnt move. Meditations on language are woven throughout the collection. Nouns wont connect and Siken must speak around a meaning: dark-struck, slumber-felt, sleep-clogged. To say black tree when one means asks us to consider what a body can and cannot relearn. Part insight, part anecdote, he is meticulous and fearless in his explorations of the stories that build a self. Told in 77 prose poems, I Do Know Some Things teaches us about transformation. We learn to shoulder the dark, to find beauty in The field [that] had been swept clean of habit.
Author: Richard Siken
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Published: 08/26/2025
Pages: 128
ISBN: 9781556596247
Language: English
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