{"product_id":"black-lake-poems-by-emily-skaja","title":"Black Lake: Poems by Emily Skaja","description":"\u003cdiv data-testid=\"description\" class=\"BookPageMetadataSection__description\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"TruncatedContent\" tabindex=\"-1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"TruncatedContent__text TruncatedContent__text--large TruncatedContent__text--expanded\" data-testid=\"contentContainer\" tabindex=\"-1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"DetailsLayoutRightParagraph\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"DetailsLayoutRightParagraph__widthConstrained\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"Formatted\"\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\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Mahala Independent Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":63890712822090,"sku":null,"price":22.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0760\/5662\/5482\/files\/245645227.jpg?v=1791798160","url":"https:\/\/mahala.bg\/en\/products\/black-lake-poems-by-emily-skaja","provider":"Mahala Independent Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}