{"product_id":"blackacre-poems","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 The New York Times Best Poetry of 2016*\u003cbr\u003e*Named one of The Washington Post's Best Poetry Collections of 2016*\u003cbr\u003e* Longlisted for the National Book Award*\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Long Live the Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45298359435330,"sku":"9781555977504","price":8.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0613\/8101\/7666\/files\/9781555977504.jpg?v=1790963131","url":"https:\/\/longlivethebookstore.com\/products\/blackacre-poems","provider":"Long Live the Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}