Everything you need to understand or teach Blood Oranges by Lisel Mueller.
"Blood Oranges" comes from Second Language, Lisel Mueller's fourth book of poetry. In this poem, one sees subjects that have interested Mueller throughout her career, most notably the Holocaust in Hitler's Germany and her fascination with poetry's way of capturing the physical world so concretely that reality's horrors cannot be ignored.
An interesting aspect of this poem is that it presents Nazi Germany, from which Mueller's family fled when she was young, as...