Ask the Brindled selected by Rick Barot as a winner of the 2021 National Poetry Series bares everything that breaks between seed and amp8220summitamp8221 of a lifethe body a people their language. It is an intergenerational reclamation of the narratives foisted upon Indigenous and queer Hawaiiansamp8212and it does not let readers look away.In this debut collection Noamp8216u Revilla crafts a lyric landscape brimming with shed skin water moamp8216o maamp8216i. She grips language like a fistful of wet guts and inks the page redamp8212for desire for love for generations of blood spilled by colonizers. She hides knives in her hair amp8220the way my grandmotheramp8212not godamp8212 the way my grandmother intendedamp8221 and we heed before her amp8220we stunned insects dangle.amp8221 Wedding the history of the Kingdom of Hawaiamp699i 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 amp699amp332iwi 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 amp8220still sacred.amp8221 It is a vow to those yet to come amp8220the ea of enough is our daughters our daughters need to believe they are enough.amp8221