Shadow of the Wind

This new collection, Shadow of the Wind, is not only Sir Sawi’s life work; it is his work in multiple forms and reincarnations—written, published, republished, and rewritten across different periods of his life. As readers, we know that environment, circumstance, and even age shape how we encounter a text. As Italo Calvino once wrote, “A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.” You may have read Sir Sawi in your twenties, as we did—but we urge you to read him again at a different moment in your life. Maybe in your forties, as we are now. You will find that the poems have changed, because you have changed.