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

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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

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