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Blackacre : Poems

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'Blackacre' is a legal fiction, a hypothetical estate.

Monica Youn's fascinating, multifaceted new collection, Blackacre, uses the term to suggest landscape, legacy, what is allotted to each of us - a tract of land, a work of art, a heritage, a body, a destiny.

What are the limits of the imagination's ability to transform what is given?

On any particular acre, can we plant a garden? Youn brings her lawyerly intelligence and lyric gifts to bear on questions of fertility and barrenness as she attempts to understand her own desire - her own struggle - to conceive a child.

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Product Details
Graywolf Press,U.S.
1555977502 / 9781555977504
Paperback / softback
811.6
06/09/2016
United States
English
88 pages
23 cm