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    Ask the Brindled
    Ask the Brindled
    Ask the Brindled
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    Ask the Brindled

    By No'u Revilla and Rick Barot

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    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 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 ?Oiwi 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.”
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateAug 9, 2022
    ISBN9781639550012
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      Ask the Brindled - No'u Revilla

      Cover: Ask the Brindled, Winner of the National Poetry Series | Selected by Rick Barot by Noʻu Revilla

      THE NATIONAL POETRY SERIES was established in 1978 to ensure the publication of five collections of poetry annually through five participating publishers. The Series is funded annually by Amazon Literary Partnership, William Geoffrey Beattie, the Gettinger Family Foundation, Bruce Gibney, HarperCollins Publishers, The Stephen and Tabitha King Foundation, Padma Lakshmi, Lannan Foundation, Newman’s Own Foundation, Anna and Olafur Olafsson, Penguin Random House, the Poetry Foundation, Amy Tan and Louis DeMattei, Amor Towles, Elise and Steven Trulaske, and the National Poetry Series Board of Directors.

      THE NATIONAL POETRY SERIES WINNERS OF THE 2021 OPEN COMPETITION

      Symmetry of Fish

      by Su Cho (Landcaster, PA)

      Chosen by Paige Lewis for Penguin Books

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      by Shelley Puhak (Catonsville, Maryland)

      Chosen by Nicole Sealey for Ecco

      Extinction Theory

      by Kien Lam (Los Angeles, CA)

      Chosen by Kyle Dargan for University of Georgia Press

      Ask the Brindled

      by No‘u Revilla (Pālolo, Hawai‘i)

      Chosen by Rick Barot for Milkweed Editions

      Relinquenda

      by Alexandra Lytton Regalado (Palmetto Bay, FL)

      Chosen by Reginald Betts for Beacon Press

      Ask the Brindled

      WINNER OF THE NATIONAL POETRY SERIES | SELECTED BY RICK BAROT

      poems

      No‘u Revilla

      Logo: Milkweed Editions

      © 2022, Text by No‘u Revilla

      © 2022, Cover art by Jocelyn Ng

      All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in critical articles or reviews, no part of this book may be reproduced in any manner without prior written permission from the publisher: Milkweed Editions, 1011 Washington Avenue South, Suite 300, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55415.

      (800) 520-6455

      milkweed.org

      Published 2022 by Milkweed Editions

      Printed in Canada

      Cover design by Mary Austin Speaker

      Cover photo by Jocelyn Ng

      Author photo by Bryan Kamaoli Kuwada

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      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Names: Revilla, No‘u, author. | Barot, Rick, 1969- editor.

      Title: Ask the brindled : poems / No’u Revilla ; selected by Rick Barot.

      Description: First edition. | Minneapolis, Minnesota : Milkweed Editions, 2022. | Series: The National Poetry Series | Summary: 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-- Provided by publisher.

      Identifiers: LCCN 2021062232 (print) | LCCN 2021062233 (ebook) | ISBN 9781639550005 (trade paperback ; acid-free paper) | ISBN 9781639550012 (ebook)

      Subjects: LCGFT: Poetry.

      Classification: LCC PS3618.E894 A92 2022 (print) | LCC PS3618.E894 (ebook) | DDC 811/.6--dc23/eng/20220105

      LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021062232

      LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021062233

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