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 Yawnghwes 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.