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House of AnansiPress,paperback

Publication Date:April 5, 2022

Publisher Marketing:In Sanna Wanis 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 Miyazakis 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 worlds breathing, addresses the endless and ineffable you, and promises enough joy and sorrow to keep growing.

From concrete to confessional poem, exegesis to erasure, Canadian rivers to Kashmiri mountains, Waniundoes and complicates genre and gathers the world between the poets hands.