Exploding Head Paperback by Cynthia Marie Hoffman

Product Details

• Publisher: Persea Books (2024-02-06)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 64 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780892555772
• Item Weight: 102.06 grams
• Dimensions: 7.97 x 5.5 x 0.26 cm

A vivid memoir-in-prose-poems about life with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) from Cynthia Marie Hoffman, author of Call Me When You Want to Talk about the Tombstones, Paper Doll Fetus, and Sightseer.

This collection of prose poems chronicles a woman’s childhood onset and adult journey through obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), which manifests in fearful obsessions and counting compulsions that impact her relationship to motherhood, religion, and the larger world. Cynthia Marie Hoffman's unsettling, image-rich poems chart the interior landscape of the obsessive mind. Along with an angel who haunts the poems' speaker throughout her life, she navigates her fear of guns and accidents, fears for the safety of her child, and reckons with her own mortality, ultimately finding a path toward peace.

About the Author

Cynthia Marie Hoffman grew up in Springfield, Virginia, and received her BA and MFA from George Mason University. She lives in Madison, Wisconsin. She is the author of Paper Doll Fetus (2014), and Sightseer (2011), which won the Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize in Poetry.