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Dream house : a poem

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    Publisher:
    New York, Holiday House, 2023

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    2023
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    A long poem in six sections, Dream House takes its cue from Gaston Bachelard's The Poetics of Space in its investigation of female embodiment, calling up such feral, liminal spaces as the pregnant body, the aging mind, snail shells, broom closets, low-ceilinged pubs and abandoned pizza boxes. Part Tardis, part townhouse, part Howl's Moving Castle, this wry, surreal and many-peopled narrative interrogates what metaphor might hold of history, both personal and social, after a mother's passing. Its migrant speaker trawls through hedgerows and recipe books to unearth stained birdsong and undead civil wars, tracing a matrilineal path across four generations while traversing the haunted margins between existence and belonging.

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    Original Publisher: LaVergne, Nightwood Editions, New York, Holiday House
    Language(s): English
    ISBN: 9780889714632
    Collection(s)/Series: BC and Yukon Book Prizes 2024