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Ask the Brindled - Poems (Paperback) Loot Price: R315
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Ask the Brindled - Poems (Paperback): No'u Revilla

Ask the Brindled - Poems (Paperback)

No'u Revilla

Series: National Poetry Series

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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."

General

Imprint: Milkweed Editions
Country of origin: United States
Series: National Poetry Series
Release date: September 2022
Authors: No'u Revilla
Dimensions: 215 x 139 x 10mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 88
ISBN-13: 978-1-63955-000-5
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Poetry texts & anthologies > General
LSN: 1-63955-000-3
Barcode: 9781639550005

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