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PenguinBooks, paperback

Publication Date:February 15, 2022

Publisher Marketing:A 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)

Visceral and astonishing, Paul Trans debut poetry collectionAll the Flowers Kneelinginvestigates 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, Trans 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,All the Flowers Kneelingrevels in rediscovering and reconfiguring the self, and ultimately becomes an essential testament to the human capacity for resilience, endurance, and love.