My Grief, the Sun

Sharply political and frequently magical, these poems reach for everything from Hayao Miyazaki's 1997 filmPrincess Mononoketo German Orientalist scholarship on early Islam. In these often intimate poems, every verse invokes ode and elegy. Love and grief sit side by side.My Grief, the Sunlistens carefully to the world's breathing, addresses the endless and ineffable you, and promises enough joy and sorrow to keep growing.

From concrete to confessional poem, exegesis to erasure, the Missinnihe River in Canada to the Zabarwan Mountains in Kashmir, Waniundoes and complicates genre and gathers the world between the poet's hands. (From House of Anansi Press)

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Sanna Wani is a poet who lives in Mississauga, Ont.,and Srinagar, Kashmir. Her work has appeared in Brick, Poem-a-Day andBest Canadian Poetry 2020.My Grief, the Sunis her first collection of poetry.