{"product_id":"ask-the-brindled-poems-paperback","title":"Ask the Brindled: Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eNo'u Revilla\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\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\u003c\/p\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.\"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 104\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 8.9 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 09, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51759420113184,"sku":"9781639550005","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/8d00625bba43bf50524ca7c5dab2b600.webp?v=1780152149","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/ask-the-brindled-poems-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}