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*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 fictiona placeholder name for a hypothetical estate. Treacherously lush or alluringly bleak, these poems reframe their subjects as landscape, as legacya bereavement, an intimacy, a racial identity, a pubescence, a culpability, a diagnosis. With a surveyors 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 Miltons great sonnet on his blindness: a lyric meditation on her barrenness, on her own desireher own struggleto conceive a child. What happens when the transformative imagination comes up against the limits of unalterable fact?
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