On the Seawall: Review of Exploding Head

On the Seawall: A Community Gallery of New Writing & Commentary July/August edition includes a stunning review of Exploding Head.

Imogen Osborne interrogates Hoffman’s approach to writing about OCD, discusses the “contract between reader and writer” to carry forward the lingering effects of violence and palpable anxieties transferred from the page, and the possibilities of the prose poem form to contain breaks of psyche.

Read the review here: https://www.ronslate.com/on-exploding-head-poems-by-cynthia-marie-hoffman/