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The long-anticipated third collection from the revered Richard Siken delivers his most personal and introspective collection yet. Richard Siken's 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 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, 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."
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I Do Know Some Things, Richard Siken
- Lingua
- Pubblicato
- 2024
- Rilegatura
- (Copertina rigida)
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- Titolo
- I Do Know Some Things
- Lingua
- Inglese
- Autori
- Richard Siken
- Editore
- Copper Canyon Press
- Pubblicato
- 2024
- Formato
- Copertina rigida
- Pagine
- 128
- ISBN10
- 1556596243
- ISBN13
- 9781556596247
- Serie
- Tag
- Narrativa, Poesia, Famiglia, Salute, Letteratura Americana, LGBTQ+, Segreti, Passato, Paura, Fantasmagorie e fantasmi, Desiderio, Infanzia, Solitudine, Fiducia, Casa, Trauma, Dolore, Tristezza, Ossessione, Prospettiva, Stabilità, Alterità
- Valutazione
- 4,5 su 5
- Descrizione
- The long-anticipated third collection from the revered Richard Siken delivers his most personal and introspective collection yet. Richard Siken's 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 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, 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."