Overview
āWhy would I expect to feel blameless?ā
Troubled and meditative, Blood Moon is an examination of racism, whiteness, and language within one womanās life. In these poems, words are deeply powerful, even ifāwith the onset of physical infirmityāthey sometimes become unfixed and inaccessible, bringing together moral and mortal peril as Patricia Kirkpatrickās speaker ages. From a child, vulnerable to āwords / we learned / outside and in school, / at home, on televisionā: āSome words you donāt say / but you know.ā To a citizen, reckoning with contemporary police brutality: āSome days need a subject an an action / or a state of being because itās grammar. / The cop shot. The man was dead.ā And to a patient recovering from brain surgery: āI donāt have names. / Words are not with me.ā
Throughout the collection, the moon plays companion to this speaker, as it moves through its own phases, disappearing behind one poem before appearing fully in the next. In Kirkpatrickās hands, the moon is confessor, guide, muse, mirror, andāmost of allāwitness, to the cruelty that humans inflict upon one another. āThe moon,ā she reminds us, āwill be there.ā
Compassionate, contemplative, occasionally wonderstruck, Blood Moon is a moving work of moral introspection.
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