{"product_id":"skaja-emily-black-lakepb","title":"[09\/01\/26] Skaja, Emily: Black Lake","description":"\u003cp\u003eGraywolf Press, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: September 1, 2026\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA frank new book about the devastation of recurring pregnancy loss, by the author of the award-winning\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\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\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eAmerica imperils basic human rights as essential health care for women now hangs in doubt.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBlack Lake\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\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, \/ \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eI lost the world\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e?\" Skaja asks. \"No one. To admit \/ that you held the world at all?\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45143458873367,"sku":"9781644454121","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/files\/91FORtZO2tL._SL1500.jpg?v=1780528277","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/skaja-emily-black-lakepb","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}