Dream of No One but Myself

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Publication Year:
2021

ISBN-13: 9781771315616

<p><b>Winner 2022 A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry</b></p><p><b>Shortlisted 2022 Griffin Poetry Prize</b></p><p><b>Shortlisted 2022 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award</b></p><p><b>2022 Governor General&#8217;s Literary Awards Finalist</b></p><p><b>2022 Grand Prix du Livre de Montr&#233;al Jury Selection</b></p><p><b>Shortlisted 2022 Concordia University First Book Prize</b></p><p><b><br></b></p><p><b>An 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.</b> </p><p><b><br></b></p> <p><i>Dream of No One but Myself</i> 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 <i>Dream of No One but Myself</i>, Bradford decides and then decides again, composing a deliberately unstable, frayed account of family inheritance, intergenerational traumas, and domestic tenderness.</p><p><br></p> <p>More 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&#8217;s own history and diffract it into innumerable beams of light.</p>