The Small Way
Onjana Yawnghwe
Publisher: Caitlin Press
Book Description
In The Small Way, a woman re-evaluates herself and her marriage as she comes to terms with a spouse’s transition. Intimate and powerful, the poems celebrate the courage of a partner coming out as a trans woman and records the confusion in facing a partner’s changing gender identity. Speaking to the tenderness that exists between two people, the book explores shifting bodies and emotional landscapes, and examines what it really means to love someone. The book is an elegy to love and memory, a chronicle of holding on and letting go.
Author Bio
Onjana Yawnghwe’s poems have been featured in numerous anthologies and journals, including The Best Canadian Poetry in English 2011, 4 Poets, CV2, Room, and The New Quarterly. Her first poetry book, Fragments, Desire, was published by Oolichan Books in 2017.