pThe poems in strongemBlood Moon emstrongrecount the first eighteen months of the Covid-19 pandemic. Elaine Nussbaum's personal narrative is interwoven with social issues, climate change, and astronomical events, such as the blood moon that occurred simultaneously with a blue moon on Oct 31, 2020. The titular poem from the collection pays tribute to Marvin Bell and his Dead Man poems-pp ppemAll the dead people can't live without you Marvin, and the live people cannot dieemppemWe are a country washed up on a beach after a shipwreck.emppemThe tide is coming in, and the waves are getting closeremppemIt is raining and we are naked...emppemHelp will be coming in eighty days, but how do we get through this without eating each otherempp pppp ppShe captures the sense of suspension we all felt, even as we went about daily life. Her view is both sweeping and micro-focused.pstrong-Sherry Rind, author of emBetweenem emStates of Matteremstrongpp ppbrppThe poems in emBlood Moonem are shards of light