Staff reader C. Rees talks with poet Richard Siken about associative landings, the fractured intimacy of address, and his forthcoming collection I Do Know Some Things, which features three poems published in NER 46.2. I kept encountering moments of composition/decomposition at the level of poem, line, sentence, phrase, image, word, thought. Richard Siken: I had a stroke, was paralyzed on my right side, lost my short-term memory, and couldn’t make sentences. There’s only one poem in I Do Know Some Things where I allow myself to indulge in sheer fabrication. Their work has appeared in Apocalypse Confidential, Bat City Review, Shore Poetry, Territory, the Action Books Blog, the Fairy Tale Review, the Bellingham Review, and elsewhere.