{"product_id":"blackacre-poems","title":"Blackacre: Poems","description":"*Winner of the William Carlos Williams Award*\n*National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist*\n*Included in The New York Times Best Poetry of 2016*\n*Named one of The Washington Post's Best Poetry Collections of 2016*\n* Longlisted for the National Book Award*\n\n“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?\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 1555977502\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: BVV.1555977502.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Youn, Monica\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: The item shows wear from consistent use, but it remains in good condition and works perfectly. All pages and cover are intact  including the dust cover, if applicable . Spine may show signs of wear. Pages may include limited notes and highlighting. May NOT include discs, access code or other supplemental materials.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Blue Vase Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43331680010301,"sku":"BVV.1555977502.G","price":6.35,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0589\/4225\/9261\/files\/1555977502-0.jpg?v=1783559920","url":"https:\/\/www.bluevasebooks.com\/products\/blackacre-poems","provider":"Blue Vase Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}