{"product_id":"requeening-poems","title":"Requeening: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA collection of poetry from the 2020 winner of the National Poetry Series, selected by Ocean Vuong\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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":"Default Title","offer_id":41982067998947,"sku":"9780063096288","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0356\/3906\/6759\/products\/9780063096288-us.jpg?v=1635798442","url":"https:\/\/littleprofessorbookshop.com\/products\/requeening-poems","provider":"Little Professor","version":"1.0","type":"link"}