Path of Totality: Poems

This collection is about the eviscerating loss of a child, the hope that precedes this crisis, and the suffering that follows. Spare, plain, sometimes startling in their snatches of humour, Pollari's poems careen into the 'tilted reality' of grief. This is poetry dredged from shock and rage, then dissected with pointillistic precision.

Niina Pollari is the author of Dead Horse and the translator, from the Finnish, of Tytti Heikkinen's The Warmth of the Taxidermied Animal . She is also an occasional reviewer. Her work can be found at Catapult, LA Review of Books, Pitchfork , and other outlets.