I Do Know Some Things second revised edition “the closest men become is

“the closest men become is when they are covered in blood / or nothing at all

organised around four themes: home and family

Everyone else on the luxury cruise ship - the wealthy passengers

and couples feel out the jagged edges of connection

A pioneering feminist adventure in an alternate world before the concept of gender

I Do Know Some Things second revised edition “the closest men become isA collection of pitch perfect prose poems written in the immediate aftermath of a catastrophic stroke. From the author of cult poetry bestseller, Crush. Richard Sikens 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. In the aftermath of a stroke, the poets language and much of his memory is, for a time, wiped out. As his mind gropes