My Grief, the Sun
Special Edition
- Publisher
- House of Anansi Press Inc
- Initial publish date
- Aug 2024
- Category
- Women Authors, Canadian, General
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9781487013608
- Publish Date
- Aug 2024
- List Price
- $35.00
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Description
This specially designed and bound hardcover First Edition of Sanna Wani’s award-winning debut poetry collection My Grief, the Sun is limited to 50 copies.
In Sanna Wani’s poems, each verse is ode and elegy. The body is the page, time is a friend, and every voice, a soul. Sharply political and frequently magical, these often-intimate poems reach for everything from Hayao Miyazaki’s 1997 film Princess Mononoke to German Orientalist scholarship on early Islam. From concrete to confessional, exegesis to erasure, the Missinnihe river in Canada to the Zabarwan mountains in Kashmir, My Grief, the Sun undoes genre, listens carefully to the planet’s breathing, addresses an endless and ineffable you, and promises enough joy and sorrow to keep growing.
About the author
SANNA WANI loves daisies. Her work has appeared in Brick, Poem-A-Day (poets.org), and Best Canadian Poetry 2020. She lives in Mississauga, Ontario, and Srinagar, Kashmir. This is her first collection of poetry.
Awards
- Long-listed, LCP Pat Lowther Memorial Award
- Winner, Ontario Trillium Award for Poetry
- Short-listed, LCP Gerald Lampert Memorial Award