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Path of Totality: Poems

by Niina Pollari
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9781593767037
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Soft Skull
  • Publisher Imprint: Soft Skull
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 144
  • Original Price: GBP 15.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 159 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Subjects & Themes / Death, Grief, Loss, Women Authors, and Memoirs

Exploring the sudden loss of her child, the hope that precedes this crisis, and the suffering that follows, this collection of poetry renders a shattering experience with candor and immediacy.

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 humor, Pollari's poems careen into the "tilted reality" of grief. This is poetry dredged from shock and rage, then dissected with pointillistic precision.

Many of the pieces are closer to prose: in plain, forceful, language that will capture readers outside the poetry audience, they uncover and name sentiments outside of what is expected in books about child loss and grief: for instance, the embarrassment Niina felt for letting herself feel hope and joy, for revealing that she desired to be a mother at all, and for having to inform the world that her desire would not be granted.

A shattering experience rendered with candor and immediacy, Path of Totality is a book "for anyone who ever expected anything" about a rarely told experience of motherhood.

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.

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