Ask the Brindled Ute She's happy to be in

She's happy to be in the middle

The book argues that it is vital to refocus the efforts of Native nations beyond replicating settler models of territory

An unlikely cross between On the Road and Black Elk Speaks

Dennis Banks

and nature

Ask the Brindled Ute She's happy to be inAsk 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