All The Flowers Kneeling collection including Usain Bolt

including Usain Bolt

She and a nearby surfer are tracked by a giant great white shark that swims close enough so she can look it in the eye

and an entirely foreign realm

When two months later a sailing boat arrives

if Hillary Rodham had really turned down Bill Clinton

All The Flowers Kneeling collection including Usain BoltVisceral 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