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An Interview with Richard Siken | wildness

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Wildness is an online literary and arts journal.

Richard Siken’s work often treats observation as a way to stay alive in a story: to notice is to endure, to keep asking questions is to stay in the room. A poet, painter, and filmmaker, he is the author of Crush , War of the Foxes , and I Do Know Some Things , a collection of seventy-seven prose poems written in the wake of a stroke and the slow work of reclaiming the self. At wildness , we’ve had the privilege of sharing Siken’s work in ‘ Balcony ,’ ‘ Velocity ,’ and ‘ Tablecloth ,’ pieces that move from hospice rooms to kitchen tables to ghost-costumes, holding grief and absurdity in the sam

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