Soul of a Woman

is a 314-page book of poems about a woman and her body. These reflect the many parts and facets of a woman, but they all come back to the whole of the woman and who she is, what it means to be who she is, and what it means to have a woman's soul. Sophia Marshall is a perceptual poet, characterized by her treatment of the senses. She has been compared to e.e. cummings, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Emily Dickinson, and Sappho. She is a credentialed journalist and music critic, as well as a poet, with credits in several jazz journals and other music publications, and she has published letters on politics in . She has a blog, The Flash Boston (theflashboston.com), covering Boston music and culture. She is a transgender woman. She lives in Boston.