The Gates of Pearl

by Jill Hoffman

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1893654192
• ISBN13: 9781893654198
• Release Date: January 2018
• Publisher: Box Turtle Press/Attitude Art, Incorporated
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.1" x 8.1"