Blackacre Poems Author:Monica Youn * A Publishers Weekly Fall 2016 Top 10 Poetry Selection * — *One of Brooklyn Magazine?s 100 Books to Read in 2016 * ?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 iden... more »tity, 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?« less
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