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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.
- Author(s): No'u Revilla
- 104 Pages
- Poetry, Women Authors
- Series Name: National Poetry
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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"--Book Synopsis
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."
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Praise for Ask the Brindled
"The 2021 National Poetry Series, Revilla's debut reclaims Indigenous and queer Hawaiian identity, challenging colonial narratives by investigating history and personal experience."-Publishers Weekly
"In her debut collection, which won the 2021 National Poetry series, Native Hawaiian poet No'u Revilla explores bodies, language, the legacies of colonialism, the natural world, and grief. Her poems blend the history of the Hawaiian Kingdom, stories from 'Öiwi culture, and experiences of queerness and queer love. It's 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 Gonzáaacute;lez, Poets & Writers
"To read Ask the Brindled, by No'u Revilla, is to visit a shapeshifting dictionary. Definitions morph into cosmogonies, specificities into protections against history, and abstractions into tactics for living changes."--Lúuacute;cia Leão, RHINO Magazine"No'u Revilla is as singular a voice as can be found."--Foreword Reviews"Revilla's debut poetry collection is both lyrically and formally dynamic as she tackles themes such as sovereignty, queer desire, Hawaiian history, decolonization, queer grief, and sacred stories.... The book's approach is intergenerational, both forward and backward looking as the poems reclaim past narratives foisted on queer Indigenous and Hawaiian peoples and dream up a future of abundance."--Casey Stepaniuk, Autostraddle, "92 of the Best Queer Books of 2022"
"Poised in the electric space where history and lyric converge, Noʻu Revilla's Ask the Brindled has new things to say about old things--the work of love, the work of family and community, the work of articulating a self that is 'shattered & many-named.' Sustained by a wily variety of forms, the poems' abiding figure is the shapeshifter, underscoring Revilla's accomplishment of a complex testimony. With both tenderness and urgency brought to poetry's reparative labor, Ask the Brindled shows survivance as a gorgeous unfolding of story and polemic, audacity and song."--Rick Barot"Ask the Brindled is an astonishing addition to the canon (or canoe) of Pacific Islander literature. Noʻu Revilla embodies the many definitions of a queer, Indigenous shapeshifter. In this collection, she transforms the origins of hurt into seeds of healing through verse, prose, erasure, visual typography, and even a Hawaiian alphabet abecedarian. Cling tightly to these poems because they will crawl under your skin like sly lizards and ask you to shed fear and swallow abundance."--Craig Santos Perez"As you devour Noʻu Revilla's poems in Ask the Brindled for their stories and secrets, for their deftness and innovation of language and form, you will, in turn, be devoured by their shape-shifting, regenerative beauty and power. Like Hā
Dimensions (Overall): 8.9 Inches (H) x 5.9 Inches (W) x 1.0 Inches (D)
Weight: .4 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 104
Genre: Poetry
Sub-Genre: Women Authors
Series Title: National Poetry
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
Format: Paperback
Author: No'u Revilla
Language: English
Street Date: August 9, 2022
TCIN: 85742415
UPC: 9781639550005
Item Number (DPCI): 247-09-0509
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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