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Ask the Brindled
Noʻu Revilla
- 88 pages
- English
- ePUB (adapté aux mobiles)
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Ask the Brindled
Noʻu Revilla
Ă propos de ce livre
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 lifeâthe body, a people, their language. It is an intergenerational reclamation of the narratives foisted upon Indigenous and queer Hawaiiansâand 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 redâfor desire, for love, for generations of blood spilled by colonizers. She hides knives in her hair "the way my grandmotherânot godâ / the way my grandmother intended, " and we heed; before her, "we stunned insects dangle." Wedding the history of the Kingdom of Hawai?i 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 ??iwi 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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Informations
Table des matiĂšres
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- I. Definitions of moâo
- II. Definitions of moâo
- III. Erasure triptych
- IV. Definitions of moâo
- Notes
- Mahalo
- About the Author