Sightseer

Winner of the 2010 Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize in Poetry. The poems in this enchanting debut capture the dubious nature of even the most reverent tourism. From Provincetown to Prague, in cemeteries and abbeys, they address with tongue in cheek the artifacts and denizens of the sacrosanct places they visit, exploring what it means to appreciate the foreign and sacred.

Literature & Fiction

Hoffman, Cynthia Marie

Poetry

Persea

From the gilded dome of St. Isaac's Cathedral in Russia to the pink arms of a starfish in Provincetown, Cynthia Marie Hoffman's encompassing and sharp eye reinvents the travel poem. Always the outsider, the tourist ultimately discovers an intimate and life-affirming connection to the objects and beings she encounters, and illuminates a self-portrait among portraits of place.

Persea Books

A series of wildly imaginative portraits and transcripts of the near-living from the author of Sightseer. These visceral, mystical poems give voice to the phantom and the embryonic (homunculi, ectopic twins, fleeced lambskin) and to those who create them, biologically or otherwise. Part spell-book, part anatomical primer, Paper Doll Fetus surveys the landscape of the womb and offers us a haunting chorus of its denizens.

Paper Doll Fetus: Poems

“Hoffman uses research extensively, and it adds a depth and range…that many contemporary poets do not achieve.”―Foreward Reviews In this book-length poetry sequence, a mother inherits a leather box that was her grandmother’s. Her daughter joins her on a reconstruction of family history. Together they traipse through graveyards and sift through endless photos and clippings, piecing together what used to be in order to understand who they are.

Call Me When You Want to Talk about the Tombstones: Poems

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&nbsp;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&nbsp;for the safety of her child, and reckons with her own mortality, ultimately finding a path toward peace.

Exploding Head

Poetry. Cynthia Marie Hoffman's poetry chapbook explores memory, family history, loss, and selfhood through a hypnotic and airtight series of prose poems whose focus and singularity bloom from every page. Hoffman's finely honed powers of observation and personal prophecy propel this collection to a stunning conclusion that readers will not soon forget.

Her Human Costume

Gold Line Press

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Sightseer

Sightseer

Paper Doll Fetus: Poems

Call Me When You Want to Talk about the Tombstones: Poems

Exploding Head

Her Human Costume