Blackacre: Poems

Blackacre: Poems

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  • Book Name Blackacre: Poems
  • Author Name Monica Youn
  • Item Publish Date 2025 / 01 / 04
  • Barcode 9781555977504
  • Subjects: Literature & Fiction,Poetry,Regional & Cultural
  • Synopsis: *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?
  • Pages: 88

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