{"product_id":"wani-sanna-lanternpb","title":"[09\/22\/26] Wani, Sanna: Lantern","description":"\u003cp\u003eHouse of Anansi Press, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: September 22, 2026\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMeditations on the beauty of an ordinary life\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMeditating on the beauty of an ordinary life, Sanna Wani's second poetry collection, \u003cem\u003eLantern\u003c\/em\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA love letter to Toronto, \u003cem\u003eLantern\u003c\/em\u003e is grounded in subway stations and city parks yet textured like watercolour and linen. Wani writes with reverence for animals, trees and flowers, but does not avoid everyday difficulties--the burnout of a 9-5; her fraught homeland of Kashmir; or the reality of Islamophobia in Canada. Wani also addresses the craft and the limits of language. \u003cem\u003eLantern\u003c\/em\u003e is kaleidoscopic in its queries: memory, mothering and morality refract through tarot, Sufism, and psychoanalysis.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA balm and an ode, this collection places Wani in the lineage of Mary Oliver while carving her own path as both theo- and ecopoet. Taking stock of one precious life, \u003cem\u003eLantern\u003c\/em\u003e invites us to consider our responsibilities--to ourselves and each other--and to choose who we might become.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45143456612375,"sku":"9781487013714","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/files\/816evaFBk5L._SL1500.jpg?v=1780701613","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/wani-sanna-lanternpb","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}