I Do Know Some Things

'What happens when language is let into places where words fail? Here, a transportive experience: naked, vertiginous, defiant — an astonishing illumination of the possibilities in being beside oneself' * Jeremy Atherton Lin, author of Deep House *
'This is writing as rebuilding, each sentence placed unwaveringly on the page. . .Siken is a deadpan virtuoso of the wrongfooting observation, his prose flickering between confessions. . . A spectacular comeback' -- Jeremy Noel-Tod * Prospect *
'A remarkable return that thrums with reinvention: of the self, of the prose poem, of the false divide between the everyday and the surreal. Very engaging and exciting’ * Andrew McMillan *
'Siken’s signature intensity still throbs between sentences. . .In I Do Know Some Things, the risk is not that of desire, as it is in Crush, but that of a different annihilating force: the vanishing of a self' * Richie Hofmann, The Yale Review *