{"product_id":"requeening-poems","title":"Requeening: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“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\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEngaging 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, \u003cem\u003eRequeening\u003c\/em\u003e brings together poems of motherhood and daughterhood, an evolving relationship of care and tending, responsibility and joy, dependence and deep love.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eRequeening\u003c\/em\u003e is a vivid and surprising collection of poems from a winner of the National Poetry Series Open Competition. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Amanda Moore","offers":[{"title":"Trade Paperback","offer_id":51670117056818,"sku":"9780063096288","price":13.59,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0988\/7934\/0850\/files\/9780063096288.jpg?v=1787958925","url":"https:\/\/53rdstreetbooks.com\/products\/requeening-poems","provider":"53rd Street Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}