Requeening : poems / Amanda Moore.
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- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780063096288
- 0063096285
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Main Library | NonFiction | 811.6 M821 | Checked out | 06/26/2024 | 33111011186828 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
"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.
Opening the Hive -- 1729 Maple Avenue Northbrook IL -- When I Hear "Horses" as "Corsets" -- Aunt Annie's Sand -- Sonnet While Killing a Chicken -- Waggle Dance -- My Life Still with Wasps -- Which Came First -- Ithaca -- Foraging -- The Broken Leg -- Postern -- While Killing Ants -- Anniversary Declaration -- Requeening -- The Worker -- 20905 Caledonia Avenue Hazel Park MI -- The Quickening -- Labor as an Exotic Vacation -- Calendula -- Nursing -- A Place, Asleep -- Confession -- Gone Song -- At the Monument -- Indication of Love -- Domestic Short Hair -- The Dead Thing -- Love, a Burnin' Thing -- Palinode -- Omne Trium Petfectum -- Haibun at the Waterfall -- Morning Haibun with Tween -- Haibun in the Middle of the Night -- Haibun with Norovirus -- Self-Defense Haibun -- Haibun on the Ides of March -- Sweet and Fitting Haibun -- Collapse -- 3585 Mission Street San Francisco CA -- Melanoma -- After the Phone Call I Teach Book 11 -- Insomnia -- Tumor Board -- Postcard to My Left Axillary Lymph Nodes -- Curls -- The Last CT Scan -- Gratitude -- Found Notebooks Haibun -- Tattoo Artist -- Diagnosis -- I Make Us Watch America's Got Talent -- At the End -- Next Lines -- Elegy -- At the Memorial Service -- Aubade in the Hour Between -- Everything Is a Sign Today -- Afterswarm -- Bad at Bees.
A collection of poetry from the 2020 winner of the National Poetry Series, selected by Ocean Vuong.