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A multi-form collection about unstable systems and uncertain futures from the author of Path of Totality, a New York Times Best Poetry Book of 2022
In Risk Tolerance, Niina Pollari brings her sharp attention to the intimate vulnerabilities and inherent dangers of family, nature, finance, and health. Across these poems, Pollari reflects on personal choices and consequences within these frameworks and the ways that the resulting circumstances always, for better or worse, require more choices. At once full of gravity and humor, spontaneity and restraint, spaciousness and precision, this collection honors the precarity of life—and the will to withstand the conditions.
PRAISE FOR RISK TOLERANCE
"These poems are jokes and essays and also they are poems. They are gimlet-eyed but tender-hearted, light as a feather but also grounded in the earth. They are concerned with how to be a human, woman, mother, and artist in the world today. After reading them I thought, now I know more than I did before, and I was grateful for it." —Jami Attenberg
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Niina Pollari is a poet, translator, and critic. She is the author of three poetry collections including Path of Totality (2022) and Dead Horse (2015), as well as several chapbooks and short-form materials. She translates Finnish contemporary poetry, including the work of Tytti Heikkinen and Teemu Helle. Born in Oulu, Finland, she now resides in Marshall, North Carolina with her family.
BOOK INFO
Pub Date: March 23, 2027
Print Length: 112 pages
Dimensions: 6×8 inches
ISBN: 978-1-957392-52-3
A multi-form collection about unstable systems and uncertain futures from the author of Path of Totality, a New York Times Best Poetry Book of 2022
In Risk Tolerance, Niina Pollari brings her sharp attention to the intimate vulnerabilities and inherent dangers of family, nature, finance, and health. Across these poems, Pollari reflects on personal choices and consequences within these frameworks and the ways that the resulting circumstances always, for better or worse, require more choices. At once full of gravity and humor, spontaneity and restraint, spaciousness and precision, this collection honors the precarity of life—and the will to withstand the conditions.
PRAISE FOR RISK TOLERANCE
"These poems are jokes and essays and also they are poems. They are gimlet-eyed but tender-hearted, light as a feather but also grounded in the earth. They are concerned with how to be a human, woman, mother, and artist in the world today. After reading them I thought, now I know more than I did before, and I was grateful for it." —Jami Attenberg
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Niina Pollari is a poet, translator, and critic. She is the author of three poetry collections including Path of Totality (2022) and Dead Horse (2015), as well as several chapbooks and short-form materials. She translates Finnish contemporary poetry, including the work of Tytti Heikkinen and Teemu Helle. Born in Oulu, Finland, she now resides in Marshall, North Carolina with her family.
BOOK INFO
Pub Date: March 23, 2027
Print Length: 112 pages
Dimensions: 6×8 inches
ISBN: 978-1-957392-52-3