Ask the Brindled selected by Rick Barot as a winner of the 2021 National Poetry Series bares everything that breaks between seed and ampamp8220summitampamp8221 of a lifethe body a people their language. It is an intergenerational reclamation of the narratives foisted upon Indigenous and queer Hawaiiansampamp8212and it does not let readers look away.In this debut collection Noampamp8216u Revilla crafts a lyric landscape brimming with shed skin water moampamp8216o maampamp8216i. She grips language like a fistful of wet guts and inks the page redampamp8212for desire for love for generations of blood spilled by colonizers. She hides knives in her hair ampamp8220the way my grandmotherampamp8212not godampamp8212 the way my grandmother intendedampamp8221 and we heed before her ampamp8220we stunned insects dangle.ampamp8221 Wedding the history of the Kingdom of Hawaiampamp699i 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 ampamp699ampamp332iwi 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 ampamp8220still sacred.ampamp8221 It is a vow to those yet to come ampamp8220the ea of enough is our daughters our daughters need to believe they are enough.ampamp8221