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Ask the Brindled: Poems

Ask the Brindled: Poems - Paperback

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Availability:In StockContributor:No'u RevillaSeries:National PoetryPublish date:2022-08-09Pages:104
Language:EnglishPublisher:Milkweed EditionsISBN-13:9781639550005ISBN-10:1639550003UPC:9781639550005Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:Women Authors, American, LGBTQ+Book Topic:Native AmericanSize:8.90 x 5.90 x 1.00 inchesWeight:0.4012Product ID:SC41P5YEMT
Ask the Brindled, selected by Rick Barot as a winner of the 2021 National Poetry Series, bares everything that breaks between "seed" and "summit" of a life-the body, a people, their language. It is an intergenerational reclamation of the narratives foisted upon Indigenous and queer Hawaiians--and it does not let readers look away.In this debut collection, No'u Revilla crafts a lyric landscape brimming with shed skin, water, mo'o, ma'i. She grips language like a fistful of wet guts and inks the page red--for desire, for love, for generations of blood spilled by colonizers. She hides knives in her hair "the way my grandmother--not god-- / the way my grandmother intended," and we heed; before her, "we stunned insects dangle." Wedding the history of the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi with contemporary experiences of queer love and queer grief, Revilla writes toward sovereignty: linguistic, erotic, civic. Through the medium of formal dynamism and the material of ʻŌiwi culture and mythos, this living decolonial text both condemns and creates.
Ask the Brindled is a song from the shattered throat that refuses to be silenced. It is a testament to queer Indigenous women who carry baskets of names and stories, "still sacred." It is a vow to those yet to come: "the ea of enough is our daughters / our daughters need to believe they are enough."
Language:EnglishPublisher:Milkweed EditionsISBN-13:9781639550005ISBN-10:1639550003UPC:9781639550005Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:Women Authors, American, LGBTQ+Book Topic:Native AmericanSize:8.90 x 5.90 x 1.00 inchesWeight:0.4012Product ID:SC41P5YEMT
Publisher: Milkweed Editions

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