{"product_id":"9781639550005","title":"Ask the Brindled: Poems","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAsk the Brindled\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAsk the Brindled \u003c\/i\u003eis 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.”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Milkweed Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43085179617341,"sku":"9781639550005","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9781639550005_p0.jpg?v=1775256920","url":"https:\/\/www.tatteredcover.com\/products\/9781639550005","provider":"Tattered Cover","version":"1.0","type":"link"}