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.