{"product_id":"dream-of-no-one-but-david-bradford-9781771315609","title":"Dream of No One But Myself","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2022 A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry * 2022 Griffin Poetry Prize Finalist * 2022 Governor General's Literary Award Shortlist * 2022 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award Shortlist * 2022 Grand Prix du Livre de Montréal Jury Selection * 2022 Concordia University First Book Prize Shortlist\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn expansive, hybrid, debut collection of prose poems, self-erasures, verse, and family photo cut-ups about growing up in a racially trinary, diversely troubled family.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDream of No One but Myself\u003c\/i\u003e is an interdisciplinary, lyrical unravelling of the trauma-memoir-as-proof-it's-now-handled motif, illuminating what an auto-archival alternative to it might look like in motion. Through a complex juxtaposition of lyric verse and self-erasure, family keepsake and transformed photo, David Bradford engages the gap between the drive toward self-understanding and the excavated, tangled narratives autobiography can't quite reconcile. The translation of early memory into language is a set of decisions, and in \u003ci\u003eDream of No One but Myself\u003c\/i\u003e, Bradford decides and then decides again, composing a deliberately unstable, frayed account of family inheritance, intergenerational traumas, and domestic tenderness.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMore essayistic lyric than lyrical essay, this is a satisfyingly unsettling and off-kilter debut that charts, shapes, fragments, and embraces the unresolvable. These gorgeous, halting poems ultimately take the urge to make linear sense of one's own history and diffract it into innumerable beams of light.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e D. M. Bradford\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1771315601\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781771315609\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Brick Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/07\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 111\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.75w x 0.39d","brand":"D. M. Bradford","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43986655871231,"sku":"9781771315609","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f0bf7516-17a7-4891-891b-df5af957ad6a.jpg?v=1683284563","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/dream-of-no-one-but-david-bradford-9781771315609","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}