{"product_id":"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\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\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\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\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\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.","brand":"Paul Tran","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Rough front","offer_id":47564141035732,"sku":"9780143136842","price":27.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1000\/9208\/files\/BNCImageAPI_8110a671-c6c3-4ddc-a31f-149ee26de920.jpg?v=1771369244","url":"https:\/\/penguinshop.ca\/products\/9780143136842","provider":"Penguin Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}