{"product_id":"i-do-know-some-things","title":"I Do Know Some Things","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe long-anticipated third collection from the revered Richard Siken delivers his most personal and introspective collection yet.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRichard Siken's long-anticipated third collection, \u003cem\u003e I Do Know Some Things\u003c\/em\u003e, 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 itself--\"the mind that \/ didn't work, the leg that wouldn't move...\". Meditations on language are woven throughout the collection. Nouns won't connect and Siken must speak around a meaning: \"dark-struck, slumber-felt, sleep-clogged.\" To say \"black tree\" when one means \"night.\"Siken 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, \u003cem\u003eI Do Know Some Things\u003c\/em\u003e teaches us about transformation. We learn to shoulder the dark, to find beauty in \"The field [that] had been swept clean of habit.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Richard Siken","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46354694045932,"sku":"9781556596247","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0684\/1791\/3068\/files\/9781556596247.jpg?v=1744286432","url":"https:\/\/intl.allstora.com\/products\/i-do-know-some-things","provider":"Allstora","version":"1.0","type":"link"}