Puberty with Self-Portrait as Tiffky Doofky

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A poem addresses the awkward, alien transformations of puberty through absurdist, self-deprecating humor.

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James Hoch is the author of two books of poems: Miscreants (W.W. Norton, 2008) and A Parade of Hands (Silverfish Review Press, 2003), winner of the Gerald Cable Book Award. His work has been published in The Kenyon Review , The Gettysburg Review , and the Virginia Quarterly Review. Hoch is an associate professor in the English Department at Ramapo College of New Jersey. Photo by Catherine Barnett