{"product_id":"9781555977504","title":"Blackacre","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“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\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Graywolf Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47055520104688,"sku":"9781555977504","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781555977504_p0.jpg?v=1763753755","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781555977504","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}