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I Do Know Some Things

Finalist Of The National Book Awards 2025 for Poetry

by Richard Siken
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Publisher: Copper Canyon Press,U.S., October of 2025 ‧
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Finalist Of The National Book Awards 2025 for Poetry

It is brave to write about childhood scars and the heartbreak the dead leave behind. It is brave to reconfigure one’s life in the aftermath of a stroke. Richard Siken presents these subjects directly, without ornament, and with nothing to hide behind, confronting the fact that he can no longer manipulate the constructions of form, or speak lies that tell the truth. In spite of these limitations, Siken chooses to write these poems and release them into a dangerous world. Each image, each sentence, is as direct as the American artist Jasper Johns’s shooting targets. Each poem is like a small room in a house, a room where you will be punched in the throat. 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 77 prose poems invite the reader to risk a difficult intimacy in search of yet deeper truths.

I Do Know Some Things

Finalist Of The National Book Awards 2025 for Poetry

by Richard Siken

Property Description
ISBN: 9781556596247
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press,U.S.
Release Date: October of 2025
Dimensions: 158 x 236 x 10 mm
Cover: Hardcover
Pages: 128
Format: Book
Categories: Books in English > Fiction > Poetry
EAN: 9781556596247

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Richard Siken

Richard Siken nasceu em 1967, em Nova Iorque (EUA), e é autor de três livros de poesia, sendo Crush (2005) o seu primeiro livro, seguido de War of the Foxes (2015) e I Do Know Some Things (2025). Com Crush, ganhou o Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition em 2004, o Prémio Literário Lambda e o Prémio Thom Gunn, ambos em 2006, e foi considerado pela Atlantic um dos melhores livros de poesia americana do século XXI. Com o seu mais recente livro, foi finalista do National Book Critics Award 2025 e considerado um dos melhores livros de poesia de 2025 pelo The New York Times. Além de poeta, é também pintor, e atualmente vive em Tucson, no Arizona.

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