No'u Revilla

Ask the Brindled (eBook, ePUB)

Mitwirkender: Barot, Rick

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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."

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Milkweed Editions
• Seitenzahl: 91
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. August 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781639550012
• Artikelnr.: 63494095

Autorenporträt

Noʻu Revilla is the author of Ask the Brindled. She is an ʻŌiwi (Native Hawaiian) queer poet and educator. Her work has been featured or is forthcoming in Poetry, Literary Hub, ANMLY, Beloit, the Honolulu Museum of Art, and the Library of Congress. Her latest chapbook, Permission to Make Digging Sounds, was published in Effigies III in 2019, and she has performed throughout Hawaiʻi as well as Canada, Papua New Guinea, and the United Nations. She is an assistant professor at the University of Hawaiʻi-Mānoa, where she teaches creative writing with an emphasis on ʻŌiwi literature, spoken word, and decolonial poetics. Born and raised in Waiʻehu on the island of Maui, she currently lives and loves in the valley of Pālolo on the island of Oʻahu.

Inhaltsangabe

I.
Definitions of moʻo 1-3    
     Maunakea    
     About the effects of shedding skin    
     Welcome to the gut house    
     Eggs    
     He moʻo, he wahine    
     Kino    
     Moʻolelo is the theory    
     My grandma tells    
     Memory as missionary position    
     How to swallow a colonizer    
     Catalogue of gossip, warnings & other talk of moʻo, aka an ʻōiwi
abecedarian    
     Don’t have sex with gods    
     When you say  “protestors” instead of “protectors”    
 II.
Definitions of moʻo 4-6    
     Iwi hilo means thigh bone means core of one’s being    
     Maui county fair    
     In search of a different ending    
          I. Summer with funeral & booze    
          II. Summer with funeral & playing house    
          III. Summer with funeral & 3 a.m.    
     Mercy    
     Ex is a verb    
     After she leaves you, femme    
     Lessons in quarantine    
     So sacred, so queer    
     Adze-shaped rain    
 III.
     Erasure triptych: ʻai    
     Sirens        out    
     Erasure triptych: aloha    
 IV.
Definitions of moʻo 7-8    
     Thirst traps    
     Myth bitch    
     Getting ready for work    
     For sisters who pray with fire    
     Dirtiest grand    
     The opposite of dispossession is not possession; it is connection    
     The ea of enough    
     Fire in Mākena    
     Recovery, Waikīkī    
     New patient form—medical history—creative option    
     Preparing Kaʻuiki    
     Basket    
     Shapeshifters banned, censored, or otherwise shit-listed, aka chosen
family poem 
Notes
Mahalo