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I DO KNOW SOME THINGS

I DO KNOW SOME THINGS

I DO KNOW SOME THINGS

Real Estate

Family Therapy

Heart Failure

Patty Melt

Sidewalk

Hearsay

Beet Soup

Piano Lesson

Mercy

Cover Story

Metonymy

Bed

Landmark

Yardstick

Several Tremendous

Cult Leader

Kitchen Window

Pornography

Stunt Man

The List

The Waves

The Subjunctive

Rocketship

Superposition

Remote Viewing

Non-Diegetic Music

Desk Clerk

Drug Plane

Spoon

Doubt

Driveway

Heart Valve

Gun Case

Fear

Lemon Bar

Heat Map

Pain Scale

Syllogism

Ventriloquist

Albondigas

Intercom

Hunger

Room Tone

White Noise

Time Travel

History

Dinosaur

Parataxis

Tablecloth

Redshift

The Horns

Word Problems

Marshmallow Cats

Cloud Factory

Photo Booth

Flashlight

Carboniferous Forest

Convenience Store

Bass

Suffering

True Love

Field

Zeno

Fiction

Non-Fiction

Poetry

Line

Paragraph

Bar

Balcony

Velocity

Rope Trick

Volta

Strata

Fauna

Dawn

Mountain

WAR OF THE FOXES

I DO KNOW SOME THINGS

I DO KNOW SOME THINGS

The Way the Light Reflects

Landscape with a Blur of Conquerors

Landscape with Fruit Rot and Millipede

Birds Hover the Trampled Field

Detail of the Hayfield

The Language of the Birds

Still Life with Skull and Bacon

Landscape with Several Small Fires

Detail of the Fire

War of the Foxes
Portrait of Fryderyk in Shifting Light

Four Proofs

Ghost, Zero, Suitcase, and the Moon

Logic

Lovesong of the Square Root of Negative One

The Field of Rooms and Halls

The Mystery of the Pears

Dots Everywhere

The Museum

The Stag and the Quiver

Detail of the Woods

Landscape with Black Coats in Snow

Self-Portrait against Red Wallpaper

Glue

Turpentine

The Story of the Moon

The Worm King's Lullaby

The Painting That Includes All Painting




INTERVIEWS


BOMB (March 2024)

The Adroit Journal (October 2023) Commonplace Episode 52 (May 2018)

Green Linden Press (April 2015)

Poetry Foundation (April 2015)

The Awl (June 2015)

Tin House (December 2014)

Black Warrior Review (June 2014)  

BOMB (October 2011)




ESSAYS


Chrysanthemum

Ornithopter [1.1]*

Love From a Distance [1.2]*

Black Telephone [1.3]*

The Long and Short of It [2.1]*

With All My Road [2.2]*

Broken/Unbroken [3.1]*

Meet Me at the Page Where [3.2]*

When You're Not Breathing [4.1]*

The Definitive Version [5.1]*

*Spork Editor's Pages




BIO


Richard Siken is a poet, painter, and filmmaker. His book Crush won the 2004 Yale Series of Younger Poets prize, selected by Louise Glück, a Lambda Literary Award, a Thom Gunn Award, and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. His other books are War of the Foxes (Copper Canyon Press, 2015) and I Do Know Some Things (forthcoming, Copper Canyon Press, 2025). Siken is a recipient of a Pushcart Prize, two Lannan Fellowships, two Arizona Commission on the Arts grants, and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. He lives in Tucson, Arizona.

CRUSH

I DO KNOW SOME THINGS

CRUSH

Scheherazade

Dirty Valentine

Little Beast

Seaside Improvisation

The Torn-Up Road

Litany in Which Certain Things Are Crossed Out

Visible World

Boot Theory

A Primer for the Small Weird Loves

Unfinished Duet

I Had a Dream About You

Straw House, Straw Dog

Saying Your Names

Planet of Love

Wishbone

Driving, Not Washing

Road Music

The Dislocated Room

You Are Jeff

Meanwhile

Snow and Dirty Rain


PREORDER 20th Anniversary edition

CRUSH


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CONTACT


Professional queries: 

richard.siken @ gmail.com 

All other queries, find him on X:

@richardsiken


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