"A rare feat for any book of poems, let alone a debut, in that the
lines, wrought with such deft precision and care, mark the sum
total of a life richly lived and felt at the seat of poetry...These
poems care, first and foremost, for what they write of and through,
which is a much needed-yet increasingly rare-achievement." -- Ocean
Vuong Engaging the matriarchal structure of the beehive, Amanda
Moore explores the various roles a woman plays in the family, the
home, and the world at large. Beyond the productivity and excess,
the sweetness and sting, Requeening brings together poems of
motherhood and daughterhood, an evolving relationship of care and
tending, responsibility and joy, dependence and deep love. The
poems that anchor this collection don't shy away from the
inevitability of a hive's collapse and consider the succession of
"requeening" a hive as "a new heart ready to be fed and broken and
fed again." The collapse is both physical-there are poems of
illness and recovery-and emotional, as the mother-daughter
relationship shifts, the daughter becoming separate, whole, and
poised to displace. The liminal spaces these poems traverse in
human relationships is echoed in a range of poetic and hybrid form,
offering freedom and stricture as they contemplate the way we hold
one another in love and grief. Requeening is a vivid and surprising
collection of poems from a winner of the National Poetry Series
Open Competition.
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