"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"--
"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"--
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.
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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
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
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