“Pollard presses into the most real and most tender concepts of catch and release. Her speakers are meditative and embodied, imprisoned and craving to be freed. Outsiders is a marvel of persistence,
process, and will call on your empathy as it did mine.” — CM Burroughs

“Evil is fantastic, shimmering, totally boring. Devastation is causal, inevitable, photoshopped. Profundity is detached, a parking lot, the B-movie of your most banal, necessary daydreams. Love is all of the above. So fuck death. Send postcards to ghosts. These poems are that carnival’s electric promise: to swallow you in weird, transformative light. But that’s no frivolous escape, it’s the desperate attempt “to make / a retina out of my heart.” What to do when fire breaks out in the fun house? Eat it alive.” – Nick Sturm, author of HOW TO LIGHT