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A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Pick Named a Best Book
of 2022 by The New Yorker "Paul Tran's debut collection of poems is
indelible, this remarkable voice transforming itself as you read,
eventually transforming you." -Alexander Chee, author of How to
Write an Autobiographical Novel "This powerful debut marshals
narrative lyrics and stark beauty to address personal and political
violence." -New York Times Book Review A profound meditation on
physical, emotional, and psychological transformation in the
aftermath of imperial violence and interpersonal abuse, from a poet
both "tender and unflinching" (Khadijah Queen) Visceral and
astonishing, Paul Tran's debut poetry collection All the Flowers
Kneeling investigates intergenerational trauma, sexual violence,
and U.S. imperialism in order to radically alter our understanding
of freedom, power, and control. In poems of desire, gender, bodies,
legacies, and imagined futures, Tran's poems elucidate the complex
and harrowing processes of reckoning and recovery, enhanced by
innovative poetic forms that mirror the nonlinear emotional and
psychological experiences of trauma survivors. At once grand and
intimate, commanding and deeply vulnerable, All the Flowers
Kneeling revels in rediscovering and reconfiguring the self, and
ultimately becomes an essential testament to the human capacity for
resilience, endurance, and love.
'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' Sean 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.
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