How to Live with Ghosts, by Mala Hoffman

Poetry, chapbook, 20 pages, from Bottlecap Features. Making peace with the mysterious is a challenging process. In How to Live with Ghosts, author Mala Hoffman confronts life and death through a wry, somewhat irreverent lens that includes responding to art, funerals and the ghosts themselves. Poetry has the ability to whisper truths about how we experience the world we live in. This collection allows readers an opportunity to think about where they are and where they might be going. How to Live with Ghosts can provide a roadmap to do just that. Mala Hoffman is a poet and educator who lives in Gardiner, N.Y. Her work has appeared in the Village Voice, Chronogram, Awosting Alchemy, Literary Gazette and edna, among others. Her poetry collections include Half Moon Over Midnight (Paper Kite Press), A Year of Wednesdays (Finishing Line Press), Becoming Bubbe (The Poet’s Haven), and A History of Place (Finishing Line Press). She is also the co-author, with her daughter Lucy Moran, of Dispelling the Shadow: Activities Exploring Life and Death with Young People (Routledge).