{"product_id":"ask-the-brindled-nou-revilla-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\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\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.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e No'u Revilla\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1639550003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781639550005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Milkweed Editions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/09\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 104\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal Prepub Alert\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2022 pg. 12\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2022 pg. 113","brand":"No'u Revilla","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44042651500799,"sku":"9781639550005","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_1fa1abbf-0ed4-4837-b23f-227c4e2d6920.jpg?v=1684962746","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/ask-the-brindled-nou-revilla-9781639550005","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}