"I Am No One's Graveyard": No‘u Revilla
"In Ask the Brindled, the definitions of moʻo begin with the god body and the lizard body. The final definitions depict a grandchild and a protector. This reach between bodies is much of the muscle of the book. As someone who learned Hawaiian later in life—I am forever learning my ʻōlelo makuahine—I marvel at how capacious our language is, especially when it comes to water and notions of justice and love."
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What Sparks Poetry:
Michael Kleber-Diggs on Sun Yung Shin's The Wet Hex
"Here’s what I didn’t even actually notice until I’d completed both laps through The Wet Hex—at a certain point I put my pencil down. I fell away from concern for craft and entered the poet’s world. For quite a while there, I forgot to think and felt my way through instead—guided by an expert, open." |
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