{"product_id":"ask-the-brindled-by-nou-revilla-9781639550005","title":"Ask the Brindled","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\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\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\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 colonisers. 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 Hawaii 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAsk the Brindled\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47558899663084,"sku":"9781639550005","price":32.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781639550005-ask-the-brindled.jpg?v=1776919902","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/ask-the-brindled-by-nou-revilla-9781639550005","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}