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Description
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.
About the Author
Deanna Young has published poetry in numerous literary journals, including Descant, The Fiddlehead, The New Quarterly and The Antigonish Review. In 1996, Young took first prize in the poetry category of the Atlantic Writing Competition. In September 2000, CBC Radio commissioned her to write a poem for its program “Out of the Blue.” She lives near Canning, Nova Scotia with her family.
Editorial Review
[Often] in Young's poems, what begins as a gentle game of the lyric imagination shifts mid-sentence into nightmare… [Her] eye for fallibility is the book's real trick. It will be re-read compulsively by its admirers.
— Jacob McArthur Mooney
