{"product_id":"9781639550005","title":"Ask the Brindled : Poems by No'u Revilla","description":"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.\"\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56304606708085,"sku":"9781639550005","price":11.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781639550005.jpg?v=1762796172","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9781639550005","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}