Blackacre

The brilliant new collection by Monica Youn following "Ignatz," a finalist for the National Book Award
"the trees all planted in the same month after the same fire"
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" each thick around"
" as a man s wrist"
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"meticulously spaced grids cutting the sunshine"
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" into pane [...]
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The brilliant new collection by Monica Youn following "Ignatz," a finalist for the National Book Award
"the trees all planted in the same month after the same fire"
""
" each thick around"
" as a man s wrist"
""
"meticulously spaced grids cutting the sunshine"
""
" into panels into planks"
" and crossbeams of light"
""
"an incandescent architecture that is the home that was promised you"--from "Whiteacre"First coined in 1628, the term "blackacre" is a legal fiction, a hypothetical estate. It is also a password among lawyers marking one's initiation into a centuries-old tradition of legal indoctrination. Monica Youn's fascinating, multifaceted new collection, "Blackacre," uses the term to suggest landscape, legacy, what is allotted to each of us--a tract of land, a work of art, a heritage, a body, a destiny. What are the limits of the imagination's ability to transform what is given? On any particular acre, can we plant a garden? Found a city? Unearth a treasure? Build a home? Youn brings her lawyerly intelligence and lyric gifts to bear on questions of fertility and barrenness as she attempts to understand her own desire--her own struggle--to conceive a child. Where the shape-making mind encounters unalterable fact, "Blackacre" explores new territories of art, meaning, and feeling."