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