All The Flowers Kneeling collection if Hillary Rodham had really

if Hillary Rodham had really turned down Bill Clinton

When two months later a sailing boat arrives

including Usain Bolt

And as if that wasn’t enough

and an entirely foreign realm

All The Flowers Kneeling collection if Hillary Rodham had reallyVisceral 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