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Winner, 2023 Trillium Book Award for Poetry Finalist, Gerald Lampert Memorial Award
The highly anticipated debut collection from acclaimed poet Sanna Wani.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.
A propos de l'auteur
SANNA WANI is a Kashmiri writer, editor, and translator based in Toronto. Her debut collection,
My Grief, the Sun, won the 2023 Trillium Award for Poetry. Her writing has been widely published, including in
Best Canadian Poetry,
Brick,
Hazlitt, and
Poem-A-Day. She is the creator and host of the podcast
Poet Talk; a member of the Daybreak Poets Collective; Poetry Editor at
The Ex-Puritan; and Publicity Manager at Between the Lines Books. Learn more at sannawani.com.
Résumé
Winner, 2023 Trillium Book Award for Poetry
Finalist, Gerald Lampert Memorial Award
The highly anticipated debut collection from acclaimed poet Sanna Wani.
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.
