Fragments, Desire

by Onjana Yawnghwe

tagged: canadian, women authors

Description

Love is language, and longing is translation.

Fragments, Desire is a dictionary of love, exploring its troubled and joyous borders with honesty and originality. Taking inspiration from Roland Barthes' A Lover's Discourse, Onjana Yawnghwe reimagines and transforms it while paying homage to the beloved work.

Fragments, Desire intertwines adoration of language with romantic longing. Here, stanzas become secret rooms and we get lost in the closing and opening of the chambers of the heart. The book murmurs down doorways; its pages breathe the desires we glimpse in dreams.

About the Author

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.

Contributor Notes

Onjana Yawnghwe, a Shan-Canadian, has been published in numerous journals and anthologies. She was also awarded Vancouver Mayor's Arts Award for Emerging Literary Artist in 2012. She is studying to become a nurse and has recently completed a biographical book of poems about Buster Keaton.

Fragments, Desire

by Onjana Yawnghwe

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