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Dream House
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.
Cathy StonehousesDream Houselike any magical dwelling is not what it at first appears to be Walk inside Explore its rooms It is larger and more expansive than you might think Also stranger more peculiar idiosyncratic It is a metaverse of possibilities the locus where what is lived intersects with what is imagined As Stonehouse herself puts it The house is a cocoon an open coffin It is full of weather and changes every time you dare to look Open the door Close your eyes The operative word is nothousebutdreamLook around You are already there
—, Paul Vermeersch author ofShared Universe New and Selected Poems 19952020
InDream HouseCathy Stonehouse trips the latch to a secret door exposing a network of hidden passages shiny with private meaning Amidst the very real furnishingstea towel ceramic hen nursery rhyme commemorative plate a mechanical contraption for slicing eggsthese shifting interiors bewilder and estrange until everything has been refurbished This book is an enchantment conjured by an imaginative and deeply original poet who knows intuitively that what matters when transcribing are the elisions
—, Sheryda Warrener author ofTest Piece
From the British nightmare to the shores of British Columbia theres something deeply unwholesome going on in the details of thisDream HouseStonehouse nails what its like to bring ghosts who will not rest from one hallucinatory place to the next Sit down whispers the Pacific You are not from here Stand up whispers the Atlantic You are not from here This is a deeply affecting collection you will not want to missand will certainly not forget
—, Elizabeth Bachinsky author ofThe Hottest Summer in Recorded History
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Dimensions:
80 Pages
8in * 5.5in * 0.19in
0.44lb
Published:
October 21, 2023
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ISBN:
9780889714625
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eng
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