In Memory & Complicity, we feel skirts of summer dust as Eve Hoffman rides on dirt roads barefoot on a bike or clings to a runaway horse. We walk with her though an exhibit of one hundred and fifty postcards of lynchings. We see a girl in a yellow dress at the synagogue her great-grandparents founded—the synagogue bombed four hours later by white racists. We see black-faced jockeys in front yards. We listen to lullabies written in the Nazi concentration camps played on her mother’s piano—and the realization her mother was pregnant with her as they were being written. We taste sweet-potato pies and feel the wooden pews of churches turning their backs as gay men die. We watch giggling children dive from the top of the refrigerator into their father’s arms. We accompany a widow rebuilding her life, catching fireflies with her grandchildren, dancing with them in the rain.

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Eve Hoffman’s book of memories arrives at a conflicted time in American life and culture, and provides much needed insight into the paths that led us here and possibilities for going forward.

Robert Franklin, PhD, President Emeritus Morehouse College


In the end, Eve Hoffman’s work stands as a testimonial to a love that lives both in the ordinariness and in the trials, losses, struggles of our lives—if we but look.  

Jamil Zainaldin, President Emeritus, Georgia Humanities Council

Eve Hoffman confronts our moral sensibilities. Being a white, Jewish girl (and then woman) of privilege in the South over the last half century was fraught with contradictions and challenge.

Paul Root Wolpe, Director, Emory University Center for Ethics 

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We find our own stories in Eve Hoffman’s poetry – affirming, bearing witness both intimate and epic in the time flow of the second half of the twentieth century.

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Eve Hoffman grew up on a Georgia dairy farm. Her lineage includes a Revolutionary War soldier, a mill owner hung near to death by Yankees, a suffragette leader. We join her at the Georgia State Fair. Carousel horses, blue ribbons for 4-H calves and cotton candy laced with lies. At sixteen her Atlanta synagogue is bombed at sixteen. She takes us to 1930s eroded Georgia red clay her grandfather turns into a prize winning dairy farm. Four generations later we hear earthmovers carve fertile fields and verdant pastures into streets.  Gone, the smell of fresh cut hay and manure. We walk along a creek after storms. A chaos of limbs, yellow tennis balls, new eddies and a shed covered in hate graffiti. Her mother teaches her to name plants—bloodroot and trillium. We are at the bedside as her husband dies and on the hillside where grandchildren pick daffodils he planted forty years before. Honored as a Remarkable Woman by her alma mater Smith College. We share with Eve Hoffman a cup of medicine her five-year old granddaughter mixes in a galvanized bucket.  

It will heal everything.

From Preface, Paul Wolpe, Director of the Center for Peacebuilding and Conflict Transformation Emory University

PRAISE FOR CORN LIKKER & DAFFODILS

Eve Hoffman’s words conjure worlds into which we’re invited to enter, explore, and immerse. In each poem, we are not mere bystander, but witness and accomplice. Audrey Galex

A premier collection of the Southern experience with all its contradictions, all its pain and its beauty.

Cheryl Ann Passanisi

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Celebration of Healing, Granite Springs Press 2012

..dramatically encouraging prevention and resoundingly affirming the fullness of life attainable after cancer. Paula Lawton Bevington, First woman President of Atlanta Rotary, Chair Georgia Human Relations Commission

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SHE, Five Oaks Press – out of print

…a compact memoir tracing the steps of a diffident child as she becomes a confident woman who simultaneously follows the rules and pushes the boundaries.

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RED CLAY, Finishing Line Press 2010, out of print

…testifies to the enduring power and appeal of place. Jamil Zainaldin, President Emeritus, Georgia Humanities Council

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