The warmth of the taxidermied animal by Tytti Heikkinen and translated by Niina Pollari

This is poetry from Finland.

The warmth of the taxidermied animal by Tytti Heikkinen translated by Niina Pollari is published by Action Books. This is a Book originally written in Finnish. This was published in 2013.0 and has the ISBN of 9.780983148067E12.

The Warmth of the Taxidermied Animal, by Tytti Heikkinen and translated by Niina Pollari, is exactly the kind of title that makes me trust a book before I know much else about it. Warmth and taxidermy should not coexist, and the tension is the point: preserved body, impossible heat, creaturely afterlife. Published by Action Books, the collection sits comfortably in a lineage of translated poetry that likes its lyric strange, bodily, and a little dangerous. I would read Heikkinen for the weird pressure between artificiality and feeling, between performance and wound. Pollari’s translation likely keeps the Finnish text’s oddness alive rather than domesticating it into polite surrealism. The result sounds like poetry with fur, glass eyes, and a pulse it should not have.

If you’d like to see international poetry continue and gain traction, consider requesting this work from your local library, or purchasing it from places like Open Books (a poetry only bookstore), Asterism Books (an independent press distributor), or bookshop.org to connect you with your local bookstores.

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