Ask the Brindled

Ask the BrindledAsk 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

Marshall III comes an inspirational guide deeply rooted in Lakota spirituality

passed down from her Ojibway ancestors

Covering a wide range of plants

and struggle daily to pass on endangered languages to their children

He then relates "local parables" of Native American agriculture—from wild rice in the Great Lakes region to wild gourds in Florida—that convey the urgency of this situation and demonstrate the need for saving the seeds of endangered plants

The first published account of a victim of the American war of extermination

scientific data

In this Ojibwe girl's coming-of-age story

Too bad the white world doesn't accept her either

and even help us remediate environmental disaster

Dwayne Wilcox

and the promise of a future