Description: Blackacre, Paperback by Youn, Monica, ISBN 1555977502, ISBN-13 9781555977504, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US *Winner of the William Carlos Williams Award* *National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist* *Included in The New York Times Best Poetry of 2016* *Named one of The Washington Post's Best Poetry Collections of 2016* * Longlisted for the National Book Award* “Blackacre” is a centuries-old legal fiction—a placeholder name for a hypothetical estate. Treacherously lush or alluringly bleak, these poems reframe their subjects as landscape, as legacy—a bereavement, an intimacy, a racial identity, a pubescence, a culpability, a diagnosis. With a surveyor’s keenest tools, Youn marks the boundaries of the given, what we have been allotted: acreage that has been ruthlessly fenced, previously tenanted, ploughed and harvested, enriched and depleted. In the title sequence, the poet gleans a second crop from the field of Milton’s great sonnet on his blindness: a lyric meditation on her barrenness, on her own desire—her own struggle—to conceive a child. What happens when the transformative imagination comes up against the limits of unalterable fact?
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Book Title: Blackacre : Poems
Number of Pages: 88 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Topic: General, American / General
Publication Year: 2016
Item Height: 0.3 in
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Poetry
Item Weight: 6.3 Oz
Item Length: 9.1 in
Author: Monica Youn
Item Width: 7 in
Format: Trade Paperback
