{"product_id":"black-lake-poems-9781644454121","title":"Black Lake: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eA frank new book about the devastation of recurring pregnancy loss, by the author of the award-winning \u003ci\u003eBrute\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe black lake at the center of Emily Skaja's brilliant and startling second collection is a watery abyss of grief without bottom, threatening to drag her down into its depths. Her only escape, she believes, is to conceive and carry a child, but multiple miscarriages bring her to the brink of drowning. At the same time, the political and cultural turn of post-\u003ci\u003eRoe\u003c\/i\u003e America imperils basic human rights as essential health care for women now hangs in doubt. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eBlack Lake\u003c\/i\u003e documents a desperate desire to create life despite an increasingly inhospitable and unsustainable world. Skaja's poems are astonishing confrontations with depression, yet they are also marked by a strange and disarming humor--a wry satire of our precarious time and her own despair. This is an unflinching book, a harsh recognition that life goes on with or without the permission of the grieving self. \"Who are you to say, \/ \u003ci\u003eI lost the world\u003c\/i\u003e?\" Skaja asks. \"No one. To admit \/ that you held the world at all?\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Emily Skaja\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Graywolf Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 104\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.4lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.30d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781644454121","brand":"Graywolf Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48016488595593,"sku":"9781644454121","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_64a8c7ac-c85b-4672-b3e4-d28ff8fea4ca.jpg?v=1787688992","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/black-lake-poems-9781644454121","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}