We Speak of Flowers by Eileen Chong Staff Favourites I'm ready for this book

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We Speak of Flowers by Eileen Chong Staff Favourites I'm ready for this bookPaperback From award winning poet Eileen Chong comes a dazzling book length poem, comprising 101 interconnected fragments that can be read in any order, inviting the reader to construct multiple interpretations. We Speak of Flowers, Eileen Chong's sixth collection, is a wondrous extended elegy dedicated to her ancestors. Its 101 pieces are a spacious, meditative record of an attempt to make sense of grief in the face of great pain. Chong's