My grief, the sun : poems / Sanna Wani.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wani, Sanna, author.

Contributor:

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Canadian poetry--21st century.

Canadian poetry.

Genre:

poetry.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

107 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Toronto : Anansi, 2022.

Summary:

"In Sanna Wani's vivid debut poetry collection, the body is the page, time is a friend and every voice, a soul. Sharply political and frequently magical, these poems reach for everything from Hayao Miyazaki's 1997 film Princess Mononoke to 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 Sun listens 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, Wani undoes and complicates genre and gathers the world between the poet's hands."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: I. Dorsal

Masha' Allah

Today and Every Day, Without You

Memory Is Sleeping

Bilabial

How Many Languages Make a Tongue?

Tragedy

Schizotheism

Princess Mononoke (1997)

I. Ashitaka and the Forest Spirit

II. San and Moro

III. Yakul and Ashitaka

Meditation

Between Spring Equinox and Summer Solstice, Tonight

Pendulum

Sing

II. Forming Glory

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

Testimony / Discipline was proud

Start talking about God's form then / But how does God look in His most beautiful form?

Theologians are weavers / All of this is exegesis

Doxology

Where is the key for our understanding? / We look in vain for any hint of God's footprint

God is the Exalted and Absolute Other / Transcendence may look etiolated

Creation/Speculation

Do not believe in God / God as a radiant body

What does God think of beauty? / Hunger and materiality

Enthusiasm finds parallels / Parallel is alone at the end of the line

III. 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

A Rose Is a Mouth with No Teeth

We Don't Want to Love People So Different from Us

The Very Slow Steps Toward You

I Am Listening to the Doves Coo

We Are Whispering in the Dark

Why I Pray

Your Departure, a Loneliness

I Remember an Incident Where My Mother Begs Me

Children Cackle like a Band of Hyenas

Asifa

Mind's Eye

IV. Distances

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 callous

My anger was made

There is only so much

Summer: Joy is a promise

That moth, breathing

There is a wish

There is still someone

Fall: Even the wood whispers

Another word for this place

A lilac, or lily

I follow a song.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Wani, Sanna. My grief, the sun.

ISBN:

9781487010843

1487010842

OCLC:

1262119884