Collection of prose poems exploring OCD: Provides a literary lens into a woman's mental health journey
Focus on motherhood and existential fears: Offers deep insight into personal and universal human experiences
Rich imagery and haunting metaphors: Engages readers with unsettling and thought-provoking content
Includes an angel motif: Adds symbolic depth to the exploration of fear and peace
Publisher Persea Books, 2024: Ensures a contemporary, pressing release
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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 interio