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Exploding Head

Cynthia Marie Hoffman

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SKU:
9780892555772
UPC:
9780892555772
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Published by:
Persea
Pub date:
02/06/2024
Binding type:
Paperback
Pages:
64
ISBN:
9780892555772
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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.