{"product_id":"black-lake-emily-skaja-9781644454121","title":"Black Lake: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eA frank new book about the devastation of recurring pregnancy loss, by the author of the award-winning \u003ci\u003eBrute\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe black lake at the center of Emily Skaja's brilliant and startling second collection is a watery abyss of grief without bottom, threatening to drag her down into its depths. Her only escape, she believes, is to conceive and carry a child, but multiple miscarriages bring her to the brink of drowning. At the same time, the political and cultural turn of post-\u003ci\u003eRoe\u003c\/i\u003e America imperils basic human rights as essential health care for women now hangs in doubt. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eBlack Lake\u003c\/i\u003e documents a desperate desire to create life despite an increasingly inhospitable and unsustainable world. Skaja's poems are astonishing confrontations with depression, yet they are also marked by a strange and disarming humor--a wry satire of our precarious time and her own despair. This is an unflinching book, a harsh recognition that life goes on with or without the permission of the grieving self. \"Who are you to say, \/ \u003ci\u003eI lost the world\u003c\/i\u003e?\" Skaja asks. \"No one. To admit \/ that you held the world at all?\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Emily Skaja\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1644454122\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781644454121\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Graywolf Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 88\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00d","brand":"Emily Skaja","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48454314950911,"sku":"9781644454121","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e81cee1a-420a-4bd3-a98c-9d2bac81f816.jpg?v=1777305463","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/black-lake-emily-skaja-9781644454121","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}