Lantern: Poems

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.

Author: Sanna Wani
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: House of Anansi Press
Published: 09/22/2026
Pages: 112
ISBN: 9781487013714