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Poetry Women Authors

My Grief, the Sun

Special Edition

by (author) Sanna Wani

Publisher
House of Anansi Press Inc
Initial publish date
Aug 2024
Category
Women Authors, General, Canadian
  • 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.

 

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Awards

  • Short-listed, LCP Gerald Lampert Memorial Award
  • Winner, Ontario Trillium Award for Poetry
  • Long-listed, LCP Pat Lowther Memorial Award