Sign-In
Cart
Ask the Brindled: Poems
Paperback
Series: National Poetry
Publisher Price: $16.00
Please select the version of book you would like to purchase.
ISBN10: 1639550003
ISBN13: 9781639550005
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
Published: Aug 9 2022
Pages: 104
Weight: 0.40
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781639550005
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
Published: Aug 9 2022
Pages: 104
Weight: 0.40
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
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.
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.
Also in
General Poetry
Dante's Vita Nuova, New Edition: A Translation and an Essay
Alighieri, Dante
Pitavy, Francois
Paperback
$33.00
Sounding the Seasons Enlarged Edition: One Hundred and Ten Sonnets for the Christian Year
Guite, Malcolm
Paperback
$19.94
Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching: A Book about the Way and the Power of the Way
Le Guin, Ursula K.
Lao Tzu
Paperback
$17.06
They Bloom Because of You: Poems on the Infinite Love, Growth, and Magic of Motherhood
Urlichs, Jessica
Paperback
$18.05
Ariel: The Restored Edition: A Facsimile of Plath's Manuscript, Reinstating Her Original Selection and Arrangement
Plath, Sylvia
Paperback
$17.99
This Is the Main Event: Discovering the Life You Long for in the Life You Have
Smith, Joshua Luke
Hardcover
$24.70