Mink coat; poems

Hoffman, Jill

HOLT. RINEHART AND WINSTON

Mink Coat: Poems

Joy spends ten years in an all-consuming love affair with Carl Vaggio, the most famous painter in America but soon discovers that she is just as trapped in her affair as she is in her marriage

Jilted: A Novel

Literature & Fiction

United States

Simon&Schuster

Mudfish 3

Poetry

Box Turtle Pr

Each of us has embarked on many journeys during our life. As you read "GLIMPSES" you will discover His endless love for you that will refresh your spirit and encourage you to press forward with new diligence on your journey. The authors' unique writing style will become your vehicle for your new journey the LORD has ordained for you. Take the first step of faith that opens the door into His dimension and walk the path of your dreams. Keep in mind that GOD never leads you where His grace cannot keep you. My prayer for each reader of "GLIMPSES" is that you would come to the saving knowledge of CHRIST and live every moment in His mercy and grace.

GLIMPSES

Religion & Spirituality

New Age & Spirituality

AuthorHouse

Poetry. Aptly titled, the poems in this collection have the compact, unguarded, transgressive language of a relationship diary. Most explore erotic feelings and disclose both the tangles of desire and the scouring, complicated wounds that mark us. This balance of clean decision and difficult feeling is, finally, thrilling.

Black Diaries

Box Turtle Press

Poetry. Decades in gestation, the riveting, poem-memoir THE GATES OF PEARL is woven together from a mother's Overeater's Anonymous journal written in the 1970s, mother-daughter telephone conversations, and the poet-daughter's exquisite verses... And here is the mother-daughter relationship with Pearly confessing her most private self to her grown child over the telephone. No attempt is made to prettify the mother's fragments and idiosyncratic stream-of-consciousness. Too much of Pearly's shimmering originality, her lyricism, and transgressive voice would be lost. Taboos of silence are broken. I leave the bed--I go towards an icy box--holding out its frozen breasts and erect Penis to me. The daughter responds in meticulous, impassioned verse that provides a counterpoint to the mother's flying-off-the-shelves imagery. Chiseled, Sappho-like in places, unscripted free-style in others, The Gates of Pearl is an impassioned lament of dark beauty. It is also a celebration. Listen to Pearly:&nbsp; My eyes were riveted on the huge banana trees... Lo and behold thru the dark purplish large leaves right before our eyes like a birthing came the stalk of bananas. I had seen Nature's unabashed sexual blaze of glory--an erection.

The Gates of Pearl (Mudfish Individual Poet, 11)

Self-Help

Relationships

The long-awaited 2nd novel from Jill Hoffman Founding Editor of Mudfish/Box Turtle Press STONED is about Maud Diamond, a 40-year-old woman with two children who is getting a divorce. She has had a colossal disappointment (having been jilted by a famous artist) and falling in love with a poor unknown artist (Kazimir Noble) assuages the disappointment but leads to other ills. The small son leaves home to live with his father; the daughter does phone sex from their new home. "I'm the only one in this house earning any money," she shouts. It is about starting a literary journal called Wild Leek with the new boyfriend and moving downtown, while their relationship spirals downward from her pot-smoking and his alcoholism. It is for anyone who has been in love or lost love, been married, divorced, or lonely. It is about the satisfactions and deprivations of sex and drugs. "This is the best book I read all year! And I don't say it because it was written by my teacher, the great Jill Hoffman and in the same Mudfish Writing Workshop where I wrote Knockout Beauty and Other Afflictions, but because it's truly amazing. Even though it's 263 pages, I breezed through it, in fact every day I was looking forward to bedtime when I can read the next chapter. A real New Yorker, a woman writer struggling, broke, divorced, stoned while being a mother to two precarious children and a lover to an unemployed, eccentric artist who never makes it big. This book is poignant and hilarious and wise and addictive. When I was done with it, I somehow felt enlightened, like I knew more about life now than I did before that first page. It was an odd but amazing feeling."--Marina Rubin Fiction.

Stoned (Mudfish Fiction, 1)

Genre Fiction

How to Build an Airplane in Your Living Room: A Guide to Living an Unconventional Life

Personal Transformation

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