{"product_id":"blackacre-monica-youn-9781555977504","title":"Blackacre: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e*Winner of the William Carlos Williams Award*\u003cbr\u003e*National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist*\u003cbr\u003e*Included in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times \u003c\/i\u003eBest Poetry of 2016*\u003cbr\u003e*Named one of \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e's Best Poetry Collections of 2016*\u003cbr\u003e* Longlisted for the National Book Award* \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"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?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Monica Youn\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1555977502\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781555977504\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\/06\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 88\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.90w x 0.40d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2016 pg. 99\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/15\/2016","brand":"Monica Youn","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44056527241471,"sku":"9781555977504","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_6f82bf4b-8318-42e8-b4bb-1dff707f04a3.jpg?v=1685041803","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/blackacre-monica-youn-9781555977504","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}