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House Within a House

House Within a House

Dawson, Nicholas

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ISBN10: 1771316071
ISBN13: 9781771316071
Publisher: Brick Books
Published: May 1 2023
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.63 Width: 5.67 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

WINNER OF THE 2023 JOHN GLASSCO PRIZE FOR LITERARY TRANSLATION

FINALIST FOR THE 2023 GOVERNOR GENERAL'S AWARD FOR LITERARY TRANSLATION


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 D.M. 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.

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