A book of dark corners and shifting locations, full of switches that light up the unobvious places, elsewhere in the house.

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.

Thunder over the Minas Basin.

For days it's been wrestling with the mountain gods
and still no rain. You walk the perimeter of the house,
sniffing the air like an animal — the erotic fields.
Around again, acknowledging each of its many doors
with a nod. To you they're human. Like you,
the windows cannot believe
this is happening.
— from "The Path"

Deanna Young's previous collections are House Dreams (Brick Books, 2014), nominated for the Trillium Book Award for Poetry, the Ottawa Book Award, the Archibald Lampman Award, and the ReLit Award; Drunkard's Path (Gaspereau Press, 2001); and The Still Before a Storm (Moonstone Press, 1984). Born in the village of Lucan in southwestern Ontario, she grew up there, in neighbouring townships, and in the nearby city of London during the 1970s and '80s. Reunion belongs to that place and time. She now lives in Ottawa, where she works as an editor and teaches poetry privately.

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"Deanna Young chisels her poems into stone, they are permanently etched, on the page, and in your mind." - Michael Dennis