Monica Youn

Blackacre

Poems

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

*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?

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Graywolf Press
• Seitenzahl: 88
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. September 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 174mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 183g
• ISBN-13: 9781555977504
• ISBN-10: 1555977502
• Artikelnr.: 44264858

Autorenporträt

Monica Youn was raised in Houston, Texas. A former Stegner Fellow, she has published poems in numerous anthologies and journals, including Agni, Fence, and Poetry. She currently lives in Manhattan, where she is an intellectual property lawyer.