{"product_id":"all-the-flowers-kneeling-paul-tran-9780143136842","title":"All the Flowers Kneeling","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinalist for the 2023 PEN Open Book Award and the Kate Tufts Discovery Award\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review \u003c\/i\u003eEditors' Choice Pick \u003cbr\u003eNamed a Best Book of 2022 by \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Paul Tran's debut collection of poems is indelible, this remarkable voice transforming itself as you read, eventually transforming you.\" --Alexander Chee, author of \u003ci\u003eHow to Write an Autobiographical Novel\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"This powerful debut marshals narrative lyrics and stark beauty to address personal and political violence.\" --\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eA 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)\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eVisceral and astonishing, Paul Tran's debut poetry collection \u003ci\u003eAll the Flowers Kneeling\u003c\/i\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eAll the Flowers Kneeling \u003c\/i\u003erevels in rediscovering and reconfiguring the self, and ultimately becomes an essential testament to the human capacity for resilience, endurance, and love.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Paul Tran\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0143136844\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780143136842\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penguin Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/15\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 112\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.25w x 0.25d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/15\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2022 pg. 31\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2022 pg. 72","brand":"Paul Tran","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44053231370495,"sku":"9780143136842","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d1234d6a-a0da-49dd-b909-58b23b889f6a.jpg?v=1685023176","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/all-the-flowers-kneeling-paul-tran-9780143136842","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}