Lantern - by Sanna Wani (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

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.

Review Quotes

"Lantern commits to a life of wonder, pleasure, care, and devotion ... Carry it with you into the dark." -- Bahar Orang, author of Where Things Touch

"[Lantern] offers us poems of grace, wisdom, and delight." -- Heather Christle, author of Paper Crown

"In this collection, Sanna Wani weaves together the heartbreak of Partition, violence in Kashmir, familial grief, love and heartbreak into a stunning sweep of poems." --Fatimah Asghar, author of Daughter of the Mountains

"Lantern is vast and intimate in its fascinations." --Hua Xi, poet

"Once again, Wani demonstrates what it means to approach the world with a belief in the possibility of love and wonder." --Billy-Ray Belcourt, author of The Idea of an Entire Life

"The poems in Lantern are, in fact, bright things to carry through the dark, to gather around, to help us find our ways home." -- Chimwemwe Undi, Governor General's Award-winning author of Scientific Marvel