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Ask the Brindled - Poems (Paperback)
Loot Price: R315
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Ask the Brindled - Poems (Paperback)
Series: National Poetry Series
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Loot Price R315
Discovery Miles 3 150
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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 Hawai'i 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 'Oiwi 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."
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