First coined in , 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 poetry 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. First coined in , 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. Blackacreis virtuosic: poems so sharp and fine they cut deep past the body or the self or the mind—they’re needles of rain carving out a canyon. Death is as close as birth, and as far. Youn dazzles with her enigmatic loopholes—the taut noose, the elusive umbilicus, the Möbius qualities of longing and lack and love—which shadow or shape who we are, and what can be called ours.
Monica Youn. Monica Youn grew up in Houston, Texas. She received a BA from Princeton University, a JD from Yale Law School, and an MPhil from the University of Oxford, where she was a Rhodes Scholar. Youn is the author of Blackacre (Graywolf Press, ), winner of the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America; Ignatz. Blackacre: Poems by Youn, Monica and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at bltadwin.ru "[Monica Youn is] one of the most consistently innovative poets working today."—Tess Taylor, NPR "All Things Considered" "Blackacre stands as a gorgeous and intellectually scintillating addition to this esoteric and necessary tradition."—Chicago Tribune "Youn reminds readers that poetry is essential because of how it says what can't be expressed through prose.".
by. Monica Youn. · Rating details · ratings · 60 reviews. “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. “The poems in Blackacre are utterly gorgeous. Monica Youn’s voice is nimble and vivid, with the poetic sensibility to fit a planet through a needle-eye The poems in this book contain a restless lyric energy, whilst maintaining cool narrative composure.”―Librairie Drawn Quarterly “Blackacre is a marvel to read These poems are exceptional in their form and content as Youn shapes words into objects of clairvoyant beauty.”. Monica Youn is the author of Blackacre (Graywolf Press, ); Barter (Graywolf Press, ); and Ignatz (Four Way Books, ), which was a finalist for the National Book Award. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including the New Yorker, the Paris Review, and the New York Times Magazine, and she has been awarded fellowships from the Library of Congress and Stanford University, among other awards.
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