Siken poetry6/10/2023 Ridiculous idols so we can pray to what's behind them,īut what happens after we get up the ladder?ĭo we simply stare at what's horrible and forgive it? In “Snow and Dirty Rain,” the pronoun “we” seems to refer to all of humanity: But these examples are nowhere close to a comprehensive look at Siken’s adept plays with language and selfhood throughout his work. In both works, “you” are marked only by action and reaction. You take her out into the rain and you fall in love with her This same use of the word “you” appears in the poem “Boot Theory.” You have been watched from a distance for some time now and now you are being watched from even farther away. Directly addressing and outlining the actions of a nebulous “you,” cultivating an atmosphere of disconcerting surveillance, and using non sequiturs like “anyway” to drive the poem’s plot are a few of the Sikenisms present in the opening: The first two lines of this piece briefly yet effectively exemplify Siken’s quintessential craft technique and style. “The Long and Short Of It” is a prose poem published in the Editor’s Pages of Issue 2.1 of Spork, the literary magazine of Spork Press which Siken cofounded in 2001.
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