01629cam a2200277 i 4500 548320795 TxAuBib 20220222120000.0 210507s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2021021740 9781593767037 PAP 16.95 159376703X PAP 16.95 TxAuBib rda Pollari, Niina. Poems Selections. Path of totality [BOOK] : poems / Niina Pollari. First Soft Skull edition. New York : Soft Skull, 2022. 130 pages ; 21 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier 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. Provided by publisher. 20220222. Poetry.