Paul Tran’s wildly impressive debut poetry book, ‘All the Flowers Kneeling’

Bookworm

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4.5 • 606 Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Paul Tran says that poetry can live on a page. This show discusses the abundant life in their debut poetry book, “All the Flowers Kneeling.” Tran joins guest host Shawn Sullivan to explore the book’s four sections as well as its notes.

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0:00.0	Please be advised. This episode includes topics that could be triggering for people who have experienced sexual abuse.
0:06.2	Funds for Bookworm are provided in part by Lannin Foundation.
0:09.8	Boots!
0:14.9	Where would we be without boos?
0:18.7	Where would we be without good? No, Timber.
0:21.6	It's a rhetorical question, sir, but where would we be without books?
0:28.6	From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Sean Sullivan filling in from Michael Silverblatt, and this is Bookworm.
0:38.3	Thank you for joining us today.
0:40.3	I just want to begin by saying that I cherish Michael Silverblatt,
0:43.3	and it means very much to me that he trusts me to host the show today.
0:47.3	The author today is Paul Tran, whose poetry debut is All the Flowers Neeling,
0:53.3	which I am blessed to be talking about with Paul today.
0:58.2	It's an amazing book.
1:00.1	Such amazingness doesn't come out of nowhere, and I would like to hear a bit about your evolutionary as a writer, if I may.
1:08.0	And hello.
1:09.2	Hello, Sean.
1:10.3	Thank you for having me.
1:12.1	I feel equally, and if not selfishly, more blessed because, I don't know, I grew up in a
1:17.6	community where things like this do not happen for kids like me.
1:21.4	So thank you for letting me be in this space with you.
1:26.6	The poems in this collection emerged nine years ago in 2013, in May 2013,
1:34.3	when I was assaulted my junior year of college in my dorm room
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