Blood Moon by Kirkpatrick, Patricia
Blood Moon by Kirkpatrick, Patricia

Blood Moon

"Why would I expect to feel blameless?"Troubled and meditative, Blood Moon is an examination of racism, whiteness,...
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Author: Patricia Kirkpatrick
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Language: English
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Blood Moon by Kirkpatrick, Patricia

Blood Moon

$32.59
Blood Moon by Kirkpatrick, Patricia

Blood Moon

$32.59
Author: Patricia Kirkpatrick
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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"Why would I expect to feel blameless?"

Troubled and meditative, Blood Moon is an examination of racism, whiteness, and language within one woman's life. In these poems, words are deeply powerful, even if--with the onset of physical infirmity--they sometimes become unfixed and inaccessible, bringing together moral and mortal peril as Patricia Kirkpatrick's speaker ages. From a child, vulnerable to "words / we learned / outside and in school, / at home, on television" "Some words you don't say / but you know." To a citizen, reckoning with contemporary police brutality: "Some days need a subject and an action / or a state of being because it's grammar. / The cop shot. The man was dead." And to a patient recovering from brain surgery: "I don't have names. / Words are not with me."

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 Kirkpatrick's hands, the moon is confessor, guide, muse, mirror, and--most of all--witness, to the cruelty that humans inflict upon one another. "The moon," she reminds us, "will be there."

Compassionate, contemplative, occasionally wonderstruck, Blood Moon is a moving work of moral introspection.



Author: Patricia Kirkpatrick
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
Published: 04/14/2020
Pages: 72
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.25lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9781571314987

About the Author
Patricia Kirkpatrick is the author of Odessa, awarded the first Lindquist & Vennum Prize for Poetry and the 2013 Minnesota Book Award. She also has published Century's Road, poetry chapbooks, and picture books. Her poems have appeared in such journals as Prairie Schooner, Poetry, and the Threepenny Review, and in many anthologies. Her awards include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Jerome Foundation, the McKnight Foundation, the Loft Literary Center, and the Minnesota State Arts Board. She has taught writing at many colleges, most recently in the University of Minnesota MFA program. She lives in Saint Paul.
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