Blackacre
Youn, Monica
| Autor: | Youn, Monica |
|---|---|
| Themengebiete: | Poetry |
| Veröffentlichungsdatum: | 06.09.2016 |
| EAN: | 9781555977504 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Seitenzahl: | 88 |
| Produktart: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Verlag: | Graywolf Press |
| Untertitel: | Poems |
Produktinformationen "Blackacre"
*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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