Ask the Brindled : Poems Paperback / softback
by No'u Revilla
Part of the National Poetry Series series
Paperback / softback
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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.â€
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In Stock - low on stock, only 1 copy remainingFree UK DeliveryEstimated delivery 2-3 working days
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:88 pages
- Publisher:Milkweed Editions
- Publication Date:22/09/2022
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- ISBN:9781639550005
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In Stock - low on stock, only 1 copy remainingFree UK DeliveryEstimated delivery 2-3 working days
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:88 pages
- Publisher:Milkweed Editions
- Publication Date:22/09/2022
- Category:
- ISBN:9781639550005