{"product_id":"blood-moon-patricia-kirkpatrick-9781571314987","title":"Blood Moon","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Why would I expect to feel blameless?\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTroubled and meditative, \u003cem\u003eBlood Moon\u003c\/em\u003e 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. \/ \u003cem\u003eThe cop shot. The man was dead.\u003c\/em\u003e\" And to a patient recovering from brain surgery: \"I don't have names. \/ Words are not with me.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThroughout 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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCompassionate, contemplative, occasionally wonderstruck, \u003cem\u003eBlood Moon\u003c\/em\u003e is a moving work of moral introspection.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Patricia Kirkpatrick\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1571314989\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781571314987\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Milkweed Editions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/14\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 72\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.50d","brand":"Patricia Kirkpatrick","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43995769635071,"sku":"9781571314987","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_fb630725-3106-4110-8481-51bef0aee2b8.jpg?v=1683337744","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/blood-moon-patricia-kirkpatrick-9781571314987","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}