Exploding Head

Cynthia Marie Hoffman

Exploding Head
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Persea Books Inc
Country
United States
Published
24 June 2024
Pages
64
ISBN
9780892555772

Exploding Head

Cynthia Marie Hoffman

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 poemschart 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, fearsfor the safety of her child, and reckons with her own mortality, ultimately finding a path toward peace.

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