A NEW YORKER BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Gorgeous ... intense ... shimmering
... [an] unforgettable collection' Observer 'Beautiful, sensuous
and plural ... a vital and visceral collection. Breathtaking'
Joelle Taylor, author of C+nto & Othered Poems 'Brave ... this
striking collection ... articulates the unspeakable from various
angles ... often nightmarish and dark, there are moments of
shimmering release ... an auspicious debut' Seán Hewitt, Irish
Times '[A] powerful debut ... marshals narrative lyrics and stark
beauty' The New York Times Book Review 'Vivid ... searingly honest,
beautifully told depictions of survival and self-love' Publishers
Weekly 'A testament to queer self-love ... a monument to [what]
persists' them.us 'A true masterwork ... an exquisitely crafted
labyrinth of a book' Electric Literature This is a book about
survival. This is a book about love. Visceral and astonishing, Paul
Tran's debut poetry collection, All the Flowers Kneeling, charts
the rebuilding of a self in the wake of extremity. How, it asks,
can we reimagine what we have been given in order to make something
new: an identity, a family, a life, a dream? These rich, resonant
poems of desire, freedom, control and rebirth reach back into the
past - the tale of Scheherazade, US imperial violence, a shattering
history of personal abuse - to show how it both scars and
transforms. Innovative poetic forms mirror the nonlinear
experiences of trauma survivors, while ambitious sequences probe
our systems of knowledge-making and the power of storytelling as
survival. At once virtuosic and vulnerable, confessional and
profoundly defiant, All the Flowers Kneeling revels in
rediscovering and reconfiguring the self, and ultimately becomes an
essential testament to the human capacities for resilience,
endurance and love.
General
Imprint: |
Penguin
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
May 2024 |
Authors: |
Paul Tran
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Dimensions: |
198 x 153 x 5mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
112 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-80206-007-2 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
1-80206-007-3 |
Barcode: |
9781802060072 |
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