what is it you taste when you die in the night
Don’t miss Abi Pollokoff's night myths • • before the body (Red Hen Press 2025)!
About night myths • • before the body
What are the stories we tell our bodies about our bodies? What are the
myths we tell ourselves about ourselves? night myths • • before the body
illuminates the dichotomies contemporary women grapple with every
day: identity and expectation, self-preservation and doubt, freedom
and entrapment, wildness and cultivation. By dissolving the boundaries
between the body and the natural world, Abi Polloko ’s evocative debut
deconstructs the essence of womanhood, carrying the reader into a
communing at once vulnerable and insistent. night myths • • before the
body is a resounding interrogation of being human in a posthuman world.
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Abi Pollokoff is a writer, editor, and book artist. TriQuarterly nominated her work for a Pushcart, and her poems can also be found in The Seventh Wave,
Denver Quarterly, and Radar, where she was a finalist for the Coniston Prize. Abi has been supported by the Jack Straw Cultural Center, Hugo House, and other
organizations. She has taught writing and poetry at the college level, run the content department for a visual communications agency, and is the former events manager for Open Books: A Poem Emporium. She now serves as the managing editor for Poetry Northwest Editions and works in publishing. Abi holds an
MFA in poetry from the University of Washington and a BA in English, French, and Italian from Tulane University. Find her at abipollokoff.com
About night myths • • before the body
What are the stories we tell our bodies about our bodies? What are the
myths we tell ourselves about ourselves? night myths • • before the body
illuminates the dichotomies contemporary women grapple with every
day: identity and expectation, self-preservation and doubt, freedom
and entrapment, wildness and cultivation. By dissolving the boundaries
between the body and the natural world, Abi Polloko ’s evocative debut
deconstructs the essence of womanhood, carrying the reader into a
communing at once vulnerable and insistent. night myths • • before the
body is a resounding interrogation of being human in a posthuman world.
Buy Today!
Abi Pollokoff is a writer, editor, and book artist. TriQuarterly nominated her work for a Pushcart, and her poems can also be found in The Seventh Wave,
Denver Quarterly, and Radar, where she was a finalist for the Coniston Prize. Abi has been supported by the Jack Straw Cultural Center, Hugo House, and other
organizations. She has taught writing and poetry at the college level, run the content department for a visual communications agency, and is the former events manager for Open Books: A Poem Emporium. She now serves as the managing editor for Poetry Northwest Editions and works in publishing. Abi holds an
MFA in poetry from the University of Washington and a BA in English, French, and Italian from Tulane University. Find her at abipollokoff.com