{"title":"Richard Siken","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRichard Siken's\u003c\/strong\u003e work explores the intense landscapes of desire, memory, and loss, weaving language that is both vivid and emotionally charged. His poetry and prose, including titles like \u003cem\u003eCrush\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eI Do Know Some Things\u003c\/em\u003e, delve into the complexities of human connection with an unflinching gaze and lyrical depth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSiken's writing often blurs the boundaries between passion and pain, capturing moments of beauty and vulnerability within both the ordinary and the extraordinary. 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From the author of cult poetry bestseller, Crush.\nRichard 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.\n\nIn 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'.\n\nIn these seventy-seven prose poems, Siken has forged a new voice at once terrifying and vital. 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It was a few minutes before she realized he had gotten stuck. He was stuck looking at a painting. She stood next to him, looking at his face and then the face in the painting. What do you see? she asked. I don't know, he said. He didn't know. She was disappointed, then bored. He was looking at a face and she was looking at her watch. This is where everything changed...\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRichard Siken is a poet, painter, and filmmaker. His first book, \u003cem\u003eCrush\u003c\/em\u003e, won the Yale Younger Poets' prize. 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As he claws himself back into a self, into a body, Siken has written a book that is unsettling and autobiographical by necessity, and its seventy-seven prose poems invite the reader to risk a difficult intimacy in search of yet deeper truths.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47486122819820,"sku":"9781556596247","price":56.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/a5b67fab89f869cd779b00c91904c61c.jpg?v=1775780695"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/collections\/richard-siken.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}