“An elegant inventory of a life … Wani is a poet of breadth.” — Booklist
Description
Meditations on the beauty of an ordinary life
Meditating on the beauty of an ordinary life, Sanna Wani’s Lantern explores how we fall in love and make a home. What does it mean to belong to a city, or to truly enter adulthood? Imbued with a quiet queerness, this book is a guide for living in the aftermath of familial rifts, crises of faith, political struggle, and intergenerational grief—all while remaining devoted to an idea of goodness. Taking stock of one precious life, Lantern, Wani’s second poetry collection, invites us to consider our responsibilities—to ourselves and each other—and to choose who we might become.
Released2026
LanguageEnglish
PublisherHouse of Anansi Press Inc
ISBN9781487013721
SellerAnansi
About the author(s)
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; poetry editor at The Ex-Puritan; and Publicity Manager at Between the Lines. Learn more at sannawani.com.
