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.
From a child, vulnerable to "words / we learned / outside and in school, / at home, on television" .
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.
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