Record details

• ISBN: 9781639550005
• ISBN: 1639550003
• Physical Description: 86 pages ; 23 cm.
• Edition: First edition.
• Publisher: Minneapolis, Minnesota : Milkweed Editions, 2022.
• Copyright: ©2022

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

I. Definitions of mo'o Maunakea -- About the effects of shedding skin -- Welcome to the gut house -- Eggs -- He mo'o, he wahine -- Kino -- Mo'olelo is the theory -- My grandma tells -- Memory as missionary position -- How to swallow a colonizer -- Catalogue of gossip, warnings & other talk of mo'o, aka an `oiwi abecedarian' -- Don't have sex with gods -- When you say "protestors" instead of "protectors" -- II. Definitions of mo'o -- Iwi hilo means thigh bone means core of one's being -- Maui county fair -- In search of a different ending -- Mercy -- Ex is a verb -- After she leaves you, femme -- Lessons in quarantine -- So sacred, so queer -- Adze-shaped rain -- III. Erasure triptych ai -- Sirens out -- Aloha -- IV. Definitions of mo'o Thirst traps -- Myth bitch -- Getting ready for work -- For sisters who pray with fire -- Dirtiest grand -- The opposite of dispossession is not possession; it is connection -- Theea of enough -- Fire in Makena -- Recovery, Waikiki -- New patient form -- medical history -- creative option -- Preparing Ka'uiki -- Basket -- Shapeshifters banned, censored, or otherwise shit-listed, aka chosen family poem.

Awards Note:

"Winner of the National Poetry Series."

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poetry.
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