Monica Youn: Blackacre
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- Materiaali: Pokkari
- Kustantaja: Graywolf Pr
- Kieli: englanti
- ISBN: 9781555977504
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- Katseltu: 89 krt
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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. '