My Grief, the Sun

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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.

Contributors

Sanna Wani

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.
Chapter Title Contents Contributors Pages Year Price

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Dorsal – Masha’Allah – Today and Every Day, Without You – Memory Is Sleeping – Bilabial – How Many Languages Make a Tongue? – Tragedy – … 12 $2.40

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Relief – morphology – I would rather like to go back again / Dome of Rock – A footprint is shown / Two ascensions – Spirit is not inheritance / Exegesis then – … 10 $2.00

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Reaching – My Grief, the Sun – Who Is the Sun, Asking for Sleep? – Good Morning, the Sun in October – Crayfish Watch the Moon Fall – I Am Off to Meet the Himalayas … 14 $2.80

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Direction – Winter -Tomorrow is a place – Each step, a hope – A place I call my hands – Here is the world – Spring – Sorrow is a promise – My worry, a … 15 $3.00