The World Inside Her

This is a volume of stories that covers all facets of a woman's life: her childhood, her children, her music, her world. It glows like a prism with the colors of a woman's day. It is a bandbox of desire, joy, and imagination. 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 The Boston Phoenix. She has a blog, The Flash Boston (theflashboston.com), covering Boston music and culture. She is a transgender woman. She lives in Boston.