as we slip our earthly moorings and follow the circling shoal of sea voices into a mesh of sound and light and water – fluid
"Hadassa Tal’s poetry is a manuscript of pain and beauty
the kind that refuses to leave us: a book wherein historical trauma is all too real
fire for the belly
All The Flowers Kneeling by Paul Tran Pavilion Press as we slip our earthlyVisceral 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