
Paul Tran’s wildly impressive debut poetry book, ‘All the Flowers Kneeling’
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We Can't Ignore the Notes, Which Are So Wonderful That I'm Reading Them First
I think writers like myself have been tested and forced to prove our proficiency as poets. And it is important not forget that we are also inventors, that we intervene in the field that we work in am. In this first book, i wanted to make that clear by inventing a poetic form that intervenes in one of the most regarded received western form - the sonnet. The sonnet has 14 lines, typically ad on a concluding couplet that reaches for certitude, closure, a revelation. This form that i made, the hydra only has 13 lines. We're doing away with the end. No more of that closure, no more of that certainty. We will rest in doubt
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