{"product_id":"the-reason-why-your-flowers-austin-d-howell-9798292040590","title":"The Reason Why Your Flowers Grow: Poems on Love, Longing, and Letting Go","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Reason Why Your Flowers Grow\u003c\/i\u003e is a soul-baring poetry collection that unearths the sacred from the wreckage of heartbreak, queerness, and becoming.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTold in epistolary echoes and visceral verse, Austin Howell's second collection blooms from the fertile soil of grief, lust, memory, and transformation. Whether navigating the haunting silence of lost love, the ache of queer intimacy, or the beauty that follows breakdown, Howell's poetry is both confession and resurrection.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese are poems that ask hard questions: What does it mean to let someone inside you-not just your body, but your soul? What does healing cost when it comes through others? And how do we grow flowers from the very things that once buried us?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor fans of Ocean Vuong, Jericho Brown, and K.Y. Robinson, this collection is not a love letter-but a reckoning. Tender, erotic, and unflinchingly honest, it is for anyone who has ever begged the soil to bloom, not knowing they were the gardener all along.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"I know the reason why my flowers grow. I am.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Austin D. Howell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798292040590\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/11\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 104\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.33lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.22d","brand":"Austin D. Howell","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49169885987071,"sku":"9798292040590","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-reason-why-your-flowers-austin-d-howell-9798292040590","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}