Ask the Brindled Ute balancing the male and the

balancing the male and the female spirit even as he tries to blend gay and Native identity

and dreams

At the crossroads of his life

and the truth slowly comes to light

Ask the Brindled Ute balancing the male and theAsk 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