We Follow the River by Yawnghwe, Onjana

We Follow the River (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781773861388)

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Format: Paperback
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We Follow the River by Yawnghwe, Onjana

We Follow the River

$15.00
We Follow the River by Yawnghwe, Onjana

We Follow the River

$15.00
Format: Paperback
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We Follow the River tells the story of one family's escape from military violence in Myanmar, their exiled existence in Thailand, and their immigration to Canada with only a pile of beat up suitcases on a luggage cart. It is about growing up as a foreigner in a foreign land, sifting through family history and grief, and alighting across cultures and continents to find a home. Onjana Yawnghwe's third poetry book reveals an expertise in language-- at times joyful, disobedient, wild, and other times condensed and restrained. A work of over twenty years, these poems are written and rewritten through the retroactive prism of experience, polished and honed, eroded and erased. Sweeping in scope, intimate and honest, these poems tell of the quiet moments, the unruly moments of rage and sorrow, the rough distillation of self, both hated and loved. These poems reside behind the secret, dark door of the self.

Author: Onjana Yawnghwe
ISBN-10: 1773861387
ISBN-13: 9781773861388
Publisher: Caitlin Press
Language: English
Published: 06/01/2024
Pages: 100
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.28lbs
Size: 7.88h x 5.61w x 0.23d
By Onjana Yawnghwe
By Onjana Yawnghwe
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Onjana Yawnghwe is a Shan-Canadian writer and illustrator who lives in the traditional, ancestral, and unceded lands of the Kwikwetlem First Nation. She is the author of two poetry books, Fragments, Desire (Oolichan Books, 2017), and The Small Way (Dagger Editions 2018), both of which were nominated for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. She works as a registered nurse. Her current projects include a graphic memoir about her family and Myanmar, and a book of cloud divination.

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