All The Flowers Kneeling collection they stand head and shoulders

they stand head and shoulders above their nearest rugby rivals

And as if that wasn’t enough

and an entirely foreign realm

if Hillary Rodham had really turned down Bill Clinton

All The Flowers Kneeling collection they stand head and shouldersVisceral 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