House within a house / Nicholas Dawson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dawson, Nicholas, 1982- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Canadian poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (169 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Kingston, Ontario : Brick Books Incorporated, [2023]

Summary:

A meditation on the wiles of depression, illuminated by queer and diasporic experience. "We, nosotros, nosotras: somos sobrevivientes." Weaving prose poetry, essay, autobiography and photography in mutual contamination, Nicholas Dawson relates his own deep depression, a state never fully gone, always cohabitant. Amidst this persistence, "the body and the pen bring a plural syntax of alternative knowledges into being, one which allows us to know the world better, to know ourselves better, to better love daybreak and this sun obstinately piercing the curtain with its brazen rays." House Within a House , in a luminous translation by David Bradford, tells the story of what walls the depressed person in, what keeps them wandering inside, and what finally gets them, somehow, out of the house. The original book, Désormais, ma demeure , received the 2021 Grand Prix du livre de Montréal.

Contents:

Intro

Getting out of the house: birthday

To come back to the photos I took while ill-

To come back to poems written on the other side of the depression

Getting out of the house: brunch

Getting out of the house: doctor

Getting out of the house: therapist

Getting out of the house: library

To write new poems

To read essays about depression

To read essays to pluralize my depression

Getting out of the house: college

To write essays not only about depression

Getting out of the house: acupuncturist

To write essays

To write stories

To create

Getting out of the house: Valencia

Getting out of the house: psychiatrist

Endnotes

Bibliography

Acknowledgements

Translator's Note

Note on the Title.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-77131-609-8

1-77131-608-X

OCLC:

1376194128