Requeening

<p><strong>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</strong></p><p>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 <em>Requeening</em> brings together poems of motherhood and daughterhood an evolving relationship of care and tending responsibility and joy dependence and deep love.</p><p>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.</p><p><em>Requeening</em> is a vivid and surprising collection of poems from a winner of the National Poetry Series Open Competition. </p>