#no'u revilla

[queerliblib]

Queer books?? fuck yeah. Indigenous Queer books for Indigenous Heritage Month??!? even better.

[llovelymoonn]

favourite poems of december

a.r. ammons collected poems: 1951-1971: "dunes"

jennifer robertson shrill shirts will always balloon

n. scott momaday in the presence of the sun: stories and poems, 1961-1991: "the delight song of tsoai-talee"

ted berrigan the collected poems of ted berrigan: "bean spasms"

natalie diaz when my brother was an aztec: "abecedarian requiring further examination of anglikan seraphym subjugation of a wild indian rezervation"

greg miller watch: "river"

joanna klink excerpts from a secret prophecy: "terrebonne bay"

dorothy dudley pine river bay

brenda shaughnessy our andromeda: "our andromeda"

frank lima incidents of travel in poetry: "orfeo"

lehua m. taitano one kind of hunger

no'u revilla kino

linda hogan when the body

paul verlaine one hundred and one poems by paul verlaine: a biligual edition: "moonlight" (tr. norman r. shapiro)

mahmoud darwish the butterfly's burden: "the cypress broke" (tr. fady joudah)

mahmoud darwish the butterfly's burden: "your night is of lilac"

amir rabiyah prayers for my 17th chromosome: "our dangerous sweetness"

sara nicholson the living method: "the end of television"

charles shields proposal for a exhibition

ginger murchison a scrap of linen, a bone: "river"

tsering wangmo dhompa virtual

anne carson the beauty of the husband: "v. here is my propaganda one one one one oneing on your forehead like droplets of luminous sin"

muriel rukeyser the collected poems of muriel rukeyser: "the book of the dead"

anne stevenson stone milk: "the enigma"

david tomas martinez love song

robert fitzgerald charles river nocturne

thomas mcgrath the movie at the end of the world: collected poems: "many in the darkness"

linda rodriguez heart's migration: "the amazon river dolphin"

donald revell the glens of cithaeron

sumita chakraborty dear, beloved

angela jackson and all these roads be luminous: "miz rosa rides the bus"

kofi

[vlindervin7]

"43 sonnet" by Caki Wilkinson and/or "Because Nāmakaokahaʻi killed her sister at Kaiwiopele" by No'u Revilla for the poetry asks?

hi!!! thank you so much for introducing these to me, they’re really great

for “43 sonnet” first of all i loved reading abt how it was written anagramically, that was really interesting. and my favourite part of it is

“22. tentatively we 23. somehow 24. the loud echo 25. the détente 26. touchily 27. a wholesome vow 28. the old way 29. cue the wolves 30. the emotion”

it’s the buildup and then the release of it that i really like.

and I LOVE “because Nāmakaokahaʻi killed her sister at Kaiwiopele.” reading abt the context of it was really fascinating and it hit me quite deeply. absolutely stunning. i’m picking the last two stanzas because wow… couldn’t choose

“I imagine grandma explaining

how to brace against my own sister’s

bones. I’d rather starve.

Who will believe in this red, moaning cinder

if I never learn how to hold you?

If I am written as water and you as blood,

who surrenders in the poem first?

Can we kill the poem? Kill it forever.”

[geryone]

Ask the Brindled, No'u Revilla

[lifeinpoetry]

Inside the dress, there is a creature, she                                                               careful

is a cliff in a girl’s body. And the cliff was a lizard once still             turned to rock she gazed too much like she

                                                 careful

            had a kingdom inside.

— No'u Revilla, from “Memory as Missionary Position,” published in Literary Hub

[nativehawaiianfeminism]

How did the advent of US colonization change things?

How does the Second Hawaiian Renaissance’s legacy of nationalism and cultural revival distinguish its goals from the continental United States’ social movements in the ‘70s? 

Revilla, No'u. 2017. “Ua mohala: notes on remembering our queen.” WordPress. 

Revilla’s blog post reflects on the lasting impact of colonialism and Queen Lili’uokalani’s illegal overthrow and discusses Hawai’ians’ continued activism towards reclaiming their culture. We learned about the overthrow in Week 2, and placing our prior knowledge within the context of this unit’s focus on Hawai’i’s gender and nationalist activism will help our class advance our previous discussions.

[northwindow]

here's the full list of what i read! 10 favorites in bold ❤️‍🔥

skeletons by deborah landau please make me pretty, i don't want to die by tawanda mulalu hotel oblivion by cynthia cruz who is trixie the trasher? and other questions by jane miller black aperture by matt rasmussen forage by rose mclarney now do you know where you are? by dana levin habitat threshold by craig santos perez all its charms by keeje kuipers promises of gold by josé olivarez i do everything i'm told by megan fernandes bicycle in a ransacked city by andres cerpa ask the brindled by no'u revilla a shiver in the leaves by luther hughes the pedestrians by rachel zucker phantom pain wings by kim hyesoon (trans. don mee choi) the book by mary ruefle a "working life" by eileen myles the curious thing by sandra lim a little middle of the night by molly brodak dear god. dear bones. dear yellow by noor hindi field study by chet'la sabree bluest nude by ama codjoe concentrate by courtney faye taylor into each room we enter without knowing by charif shanahan the captain lands in paradise by sarah manguso nightingale by paisley rekdal a lesser love by e.j. koh wade in the water by tracy k. smith schizophrene by bhanu kapil from from by monica youn

reading 31 books of poetry this month for the sealey challenge-- what should i try? i have about half planned and half left to choose

[novelniche]

"God says / blood is time. / My sister: blood is knowledge." #DayThirteen of #TheSealeyChallenge is No'u Revilla's chapbook, #SayThrone. If you want it wild and gleaming with red, come here. #31BooksinAugust #31Books31Days

[geryone]

Ask the Brindled, No'u Revilla

[creator-of-calm-queer-chaos]

Hello there! Here are some great ones I'd recommend:

One Day I Will Write About This Place by Binyavanga Wainaina (A memoir about one of the first public figures to speak about being gay)

Our Lives, Our Words and The Truth About Me: A Hijra Life Story by A. Revathi (Our Lives, Our Words, is a collection)

The SEx Lives of African Women: Self-Discovery, Freedom, and Healing by Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah

We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir by Samra Habib

They Called Me Queer (compliation by Kim Windvogel and Kelly-Eve Koopman)

The Pink Line: Journeys Across the World's Queer Frontiers by Mark Gevisser

We Are Everywhere: Protest, Power, and Pride in the History of Queer Liberation by Matthew Riemer and Leighton Brown (photo comp throughout Europe)

I'm Afraid of Men by Vivek Shraya

(Poetry) Ask the Brindled by No'u Revilla (Hawai'i)

Ma and Me by Putsata Reang

Not all of these have audiobooks, but it looks like several of them do. Hope this helps!

Usually I am the one giving book recs, but I wanted to take a second to open myself to receiving some! Ideally queer, nonfiction, and existing on audiobook (and not audible exclusive). I would love to learn more about non American queer history but I am open to any queer nonfiction!

[novelniche]

"Rope / Tongue" - No'u Revilla

“Rope / Tongue” – No’u Revilla

Image: Tied in a Colored Knot, posted at Flickr by Damien Cox under a Creative Commons License.

When young, we reach for everything that wants us, for many things that don’t. In No’u Revilla’s mesmeric “Rope / Tongue”, sexually audacious girlhood is layered between the origin story of a grandmother, ancestress who “jumped into the ocean with her legs spread, landed, and the / water turned to…

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

nobody asked but it's my blog so here they are anyway !!!

2022 fiction:

Cursed Bunny (Bora Chung, translated by Anton Hur)

Our Share of Night (Mariana Enriquez, translated by Megan McDowell)

Gods of Want (K-Ming Chang)

Bliss Montage (Ling Ma)

Fruiting Bodies (Kathryn Harlan)

2022 nonfiction:

How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures (Sabrina Imbler)

Racist Love: Asian Abstraction and the Pleasures of Fantasy (Leslie Bow)

Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender (Kit Heyam)

2022 potery:

Ask the Brindled (No'u Revilla)

2023 fiction:

Deep as the Sky, Red as the Sea (Rita Chang-Eppig)

The Thick and the Lean (Chana Porter)

2023 nonfiction:

Working It: Sex Workers on the Work of Sex (edited by Matilda Bickers, peech breshears, and Janis Luna)

currently digging through all of the Best of 2022/Most Anticipated of 2023 lists I've been liking on Twitter, y'all wanna know what I'm adding to my TBR?