House Dreams by Deanna Young
$12.00 – $20.00
Finalist 2015 Trillium Book Award for Poetry
Finalist 2015 Archibald Lampman Award
Finalist 2015 ReLit Award
A book of dark corners and shifting locations, full of switches that light up the unobvious places, elsewhere in the house
8.75 x 5.75 Inches | 104 Pages
Publication Date: October 1, 2014
Trade Paperback ISBN: 9781926829913
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House Dreams, Deanna Young’s haunted and haunting third collection, is at once a core sample of the life we all live underground, and a view beneath the foundations of the various eras and places that make up one woman’s life story. These poems have the plainspoken power, surreal shifting, uncanny logic and transformed everyday imagery of our most numinous dreams. It’s as if Jung’s assertion that “[w]hen an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate,” is taken up here as a reading guide back through time.
Praise for House Dreams:
“Each of Deanna Young’s spare, pitch-perfect poems seems to contain a novel. Young weaves in and out of time, playing with perspective, to illuminate experience: “What would it be to stand at our own window / on our own worst night of the year, looking in?” This is poetry that makes memory sharper, consciousness larger, life longer in all directions.” — Juror’s Comments 2015 Trillium Award
Press Coverage:
House Dreams — The Malahat Review
House Dreams — Arc Poetry Magazine
About the Author
Deanna Young’s previous books include House Dreams, nominated for the Trillium Book Award for Poetry, the Ottawa Book Award, the Archibald Lampman Award and the ReLit Award, and Drunkard’s Path. Young grew up in southwestern Ontario during the 1970s and ’80s. Reunion, her fourth collection, belongs to that place and time. She now lives in Ottawa, where she works as an editor and teaches poetry privately.
