from salmon and hummingbirds to redwoods and rednecks

Yvonne Wynde

blueberry picking

fourteen first speakers teamed with linguists

Ask the Brindled language revitalization from salmon and hummingbirds toAsk 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