Paul Tran’s wildly impressive debut poetry book, ‘All the Flowers Kneeling’
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The First Poem in the Book, Am Shehrazad
The first poem in the book is a sonnet called Sheherazad. The author says she was taught that every poem needs to make an argument about its making, why it exists. "What humiliated me as i relived my death in that room without sunrise, wasn't my desire for light, but my desire for more darkness"
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