Exploding Head

With this book, Hoffman pushes the prose poem form into gorgeous, lyric places. Her poetry collections have always been centered around haunting images and precise music, and this latest does not disappoint. EXPLODING HEAD will resonate especially with those for whom anxieties and fears too-often overwhelm, threaten, or distort one's experience of (and with) the world.

A collection of prose poems about the poet's obsessive-compulsive disorder, and how this colors her entire world.from The Music of Language is Clamping Down Hard: "But the music of language is opening up for you. The music of language is clamping down hard."from Scar: "It was exhausting being good. Even now, all these years later, you are still tired. Your hand still bears the scar, a thin white wave cresting."from This is All True: "Don't blink while looking at something upsetting, like knives or illness or graves. Blinking seven times memorizes the faces of the people you love... Everything can be taking away in a blink. This could be your last day of freedom."