Blackacre by Monica Youn
'Blackacre' is a legal fiction, a hypothetical estate. 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? 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.Monica Youn is a senior counsel at the Brennan Center for Justice and the inaugural Brennan Center Constitutional Fellow at NYU School of Law. She most recently led a team of attorneys in a high-stakes dispute before the United States Supreme Court defending Arizona's public campaign financing legislation. The Supreme Court of the United States. Ignatz, her most recent collection of poems, was nominated for a National Book Award in 2010.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781555977504 |
| ISBN 10 | 1555977502 |
| Title | Blackacre |
| Author | Monica Youn |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Graywolf Press,U.S. |
| Year published | 2016-09-06 |
| Number of pages | 88 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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