Exploding HeadA memoir in prose poems about the poet's lifelong journey with obsessive-compulsive disorder. 2024
Cynthia Marie Hoffman
Cynthia Marie Hoffman is author of Exploding Head (Feb 2024), Call Me When You Want to Talk about the Tombstones, Paper Doll Fetus, and Sightseer. Essays in TIME, The Sun, and Lit Hub. Poems in The Believer, Image, and Electric Lit.
Madison, WI, United States
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Selected work (6 publications)
Seven Darknesses, Diagnosis, and TherapyThree prose poems about OCD from Cynthia Marie Hoffman's 2024 book Exploding Head.
poetry
prose poetry
The Beast in Your HeadAn account of how Metallica's song "Enter Sandman" impacted the author as a teenager with OCD, experiencing a terrifying car accident, and later, as an adult, finding joy through an unexpected cover of the song.
Essay
creative nonfiction
Quality of Life"Right at this moment, an airplane is crashing through the roof."
anxiety
OCD
Exploding Head SyndromeIn your dreams, you are always running from the shadow that chases you through the forest. At night, an owl screams a womanly, murderous scream.
anxiety
memory
OCD