Requeening Poems
Requeening Poems by Amanda Moore, published by Ecco in 2021, is a collection of 95 pages that delves into the intricate roles women occupy within family and society. Through the lens of a matriarchal beehive structure, Moore’s poetry examines themes of motherhood, daughterhood, and the complex relationships that define them. The collection captures the dualities of care and responsibility, joy and dependence, while reflecting on the emotional and physical challenges that accompany these roles.
Readers will find that the poems in Requeening navigate the inevitability of loss and the transformative nature of relationships. Moore addresses the collapse of familial structures and the concept of “requeening,” symbolizing renewal and resilience. The collection traverses liminal spaces in human connections, employing a variety of poetic forms to explore how love and grief intertwine. This edition offers a thoughtful exploration of themes such as death, grief, and the evolving dynamics of family, making it a significant contribution to contemporary poetry.
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“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.
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