All The Flowers Kneeling by Paul Tran Pavilion Press with its bars and gossip

with its bars and gossip and childhood complications

the kind that refuses to leave us: a book wherein historical trauma is all too real

fire for the belly

as we slip our earthly moorings and follow the circling shoal of sea voices into a mesh of sound and light and water – fluid

Huchel surprises us as a fresh and startling voice for our own numbered days

All The Flowers Kneeling by Paul Tran Pavilion Press with its bars and gossipVisceral 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