Ask the Brindled

Selected by Rick Barot as a winner of the 2021 National Poetry Series—a reclamation of the narratives foisted upon Indigenous and queer Hawaiians. 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." "A beautiful book that honors the unique stories of queer and Native Hawaiian women in bright, unflinching, unforgettable language." —Book Riot "No'u Revilla gifts us vertical language with words falling down the page like droplets of rain and growing up like saplings in Ask the Brindled." —India Lena González, Poets & Writers "No'u Revilla is as singular a voice as can be found." —Foreword Reviews

© 2022 Milkweed Editions (Е-книга): 9781639550012

Дата на излизане

Е-книга: 9 август 2022 г.