House within a house is a meditation on the wiles of depression, illuminated by queer and diasporic experiences. Weaving poetry, essays, autobiography, and photography in mutual contamination, Nicholas Dawson relates his own deep depression, a state never fully gone, always cohabiting. Amidst this persistence, "the body and the pen bring a plural syntax of alternative knowledge 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".
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