{"product_id":"black-lake","title":"Black Lake","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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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?”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Emily Skaja","offers":[{"title":"New - Paperback","offer_id":53058735407421,"sku":null,"price":24.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0709\/0831\/3917\/files\/BNCImageAPI_659bb300-014d-470b-a3ca-e74e2a6aaab3.jpg?v=1789135147","url":"https:\/\/thebookarchive.ca\/products\/black-lake","provider":"The Book Archive","version":"1.0","type":"link"}