{"product_id":"requeening-poems-9780063096288","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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMoore, Amanda:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eAmanda Moore is a poet and essayist whose work has appeared in journals and anthologies, including \u003cem\u003eBest New Poets\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eZYZZYVA\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eMamas and Papas: On the Sublime and Heartbreaking Art of Parenting\u003c\/em\u003e. She teaches high school English and lives by the ocean in the Outer Sunset neighborhood of San Francisco.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ecco Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50724775887122,"sku":"9780063096288","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_0e8542d6-0d6d-4379-916c-085b61b013bd.jpg?v=1734808168","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/requeening-poems-9780063096288","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}