Name: All the Flowers Kneeling par Paul Tran
SKU: 9781802060065
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All the Flowers Kneeling Résumé

All the Flowers Kneeling Paul Tran

This is a book about survival.
This is a book about love.

'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

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.

All the Flowers Kneeling Avis

Beautiful, sensuous and plural ... Paul Tran has written a vital and visceral collection. Breathtaking -- Joelle Taylor * author of C+NTO & OTHERED POEMS *
Brave ... The pendulum between resistance and repetition in trauma both personal and historical moves throughout this striking collection, which is full of mirrors, pictures, paintings and retold myths, as though trying to articulate the unspeakable from various angles ... Though often nightmarish and dark, there are flashes of abandon, starlight, and moments of shimmering release that extend from costume to cosmos, so that by the end the speaker is running 'naked but for my snakeskin coat / so fast through wind I become the wind' ... an auspicious debut -- Sean Hewitt * Irish Times *
Every so often, a true masterwork seemingly springs forth fully formed as if the goddess Athena, armor flashing and sword raised ... All the Flowers Kneeling arrived ready for war ... an exquisitely crafted labyrinth of a book * Electric Literature *
A testament to queer self-love ... a monument to [what] persists * them.us *
Vivid ... searingly honest, beautifully told depictions of survival and self-love * Publishers Weekly *
[A] powerful debut ... marshals narrative lyrics and stark beauty * The New York Times Book Review *
Paul Tran's debut collection of poems is indelible, this remarkable voice transforming itself as you read, eventually transforming you. I felt at times a passenger, a ghost, implicated, consumed, and ultimately delivered back to myself, renewed -- Alexander Chee * author of HOW TO WRITE AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL NOVEL *
Between grief and love, past and future, trauma and luminous survival, these are searching, generous poems that enact the resilience of the human spirit, how the art of language-making - story, truth-telling - allows us not only to survive but thrive. This is a stunning debut -- Natasha Trethewey * author of THRALL *
Ravishing ... Formally inventive, psychologically acute ... Tran's debut demonstrates the capacity of poetry to tell the truths which will set you free -- Dana Levin * author of BANANA PALACE *
All the Flowers Kneeling is a gorgeous debut ... Out of violences intimate and imperial, out of survival and self-fashioning, Paul Tran sculpts new forms to contain all. This book is a richness. What a stellar poet for our day -- Solmaz Sharif * author of LOOK *

À propos de Paul Tran

Paul Tran received their BA in history from Brown University and MFA in poetry from Washington University in St. Louis, where they were the chancellor's graduate fellow and senior poetry fellow. They have been awarded a 2021 Fellowship in Literature from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation and the Discovery/Boston Review Poetry Prize. Currently a Wallace Stegner fellow at Stanford University, Paul's work appears in The New Yorker, Poetry, and elsewhere.

Informations supplémentaires

Sku

GOR012435089

ISBN 13

9781802060065

ISBN 10

1802060065

Titre

All the Flowers Kneeling Paul Tran

Auteur

Paul Tran

État

Occasion - Très bon état

Relié

Broché

Éditeur

Penguin Books Ltd

Année de publication

2022-05-05

Nombre de pages

112

Prix

N/A

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