All I Needed to Be a Woman

All I Needed to Be a Woman is a book of 150 poems all about women or being a woman. It is the summation of one woman's life of being and becoming a woman. It is a celebration of life, and a collection of songs. 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.