Bøker av Sophia Marshall

She is like a godmother to so many of the young, but she is a sister to women, she is a sister in a holy name, with the love and loyalty of a God Sister. Sophia Marshall has been compared to e.e. cummings, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Emily Dickinson, and Sappho. She has published forty books, including 36 poetry books, two books of stories, and two books of criticism. She is a credentialed journalist and music critic as well as a poet, with credits in many journals and magazines. She is also an author of fiction. She is a transgender woman. She lives in Boston.

This is a book about a woman becoming a butterfly, breaking out of her cocoon, and becoming a woman, because a woman is a butterfly, and she chooses the field she flies in, and she flies. Sophia Marshall has been compared to e.e. cummings, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Emily Dickinson, and Sappho. She has published forty books, including 36 poetry books, two books of stories, and two books of criticism. She is a credentialed journalist and music critic as well as a poet, with credits in many journals and magazines. She is also an author of fiction. She is a transgender woman. She lives in Boston.

Call Me a Woman is a sexually raw treatment of a woman's body and identity. It is a transgender woman laying boldly who she is, with no holds stopped. 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.

This is a book on image, and the image of a woman, how she looks at herself and how the world looks at her. Her face is always more beautiful than it seems, but it is only she who can tell herself that. It is only she that can make a difference. 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. She has a blog, The Flash Boston (theflashboston.com) covering Boston music and culture. She is a transgender woman. She lives in Boston.

She Will Be a Woman is Sophia Marshall's 44th book. It includes a memoire with dreams and memories from her early childhood. It is sensuous, raw, candid, playful, and erotic. It is a book about her, and what she means to herself. Sophia Marshall has been compared to e.e. cummings, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Emily Dickinson, and Sappho. She has published forty books, including 36 poetry books, two books of stories, and two books of criticism. She is a credentialed journalist and music critic as well as a poet, with credits in many journals and magazines. She is also an author of fiction. She is a transgender woman. She lives in Boston.

This is a book of poems that describes the nature of being a woman - her relations with children, herself, her world, her nature. It is funny, sexy, happy, sad, and exhilarating. It covers suffering, discovery, exploration, recognition, and love. Sophia Marshall has been compared to e.e. cummings, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Emily Dickinson, and Sappho. She has published forty books, including 36 poetry books, two books of stories, and two books of criticism. She is a credentialed journalist and music critic as well as a poet, with credits in many journals and magazines. She is also an author of fiction. She is a transgender woman. She lives in Boston.

This is a book about a woman believing in herself and having confidence in her looks and feeling pride. She may have doubted it before, but she will not doubt it again, as a human or as a woman. 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.

The Figure of a Woman is about the figure of a woman's body. It engages the woman's body in all its intimate details, creating a portrait of a transgender woman and her vision of other women. It is explicitly candid, wild, and raw. 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.

This is a book of being a woman, and becoming a woman now, when it is all about being a woman, when that woman is you, the one you chose to be, because you chose to be that woman. 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.

She Will Be Forever is Sophia Marshall's first volume writing as a woman poet. It explores what it means to begin and what it means to be forever. Every woman is a universal woman, Marshall says, and the book is dedicated to every woman. Every woman will be touched by this collection, which ranges from sad to funny, dramatic to tragic to heartbreaking, to very happy, pleased, and fulfilled with the realization of being a woman. Sophia Marshall has been compared to e.e. cummings, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Emily Dickinson, and Sappho. She has published forty books, including 36 poetry books, two books of stories, and two books criticism. She is a credentialed journalist and music critic as well as a poet, with credits in many journals and magazines. She is also anauthor of fiction. She is a transgender woman. She lives in Boston.

This is a book that discusses the creation of words, and the creation of woman, how she creates herself out of words, and how she uses the words she creates, spontaneously, with affection, and with care. For creating words is like creating a child. 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.

What She Has Always Done is a woman looking at how her writing makes her feel more like a woman - her body, her identity, her mind. It examines the woman in full, everything about her, her smells, her touch, how she feels, what she needs. Sophia Marshall has been compared to e.e. cummings, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Emily Dickinson, and Sappho. She has published forty books, including 36 poetry books, two books of stories, and two books of criticism. She is a credentialed journalist and music critic as well as a poet, with credits in many journals and magazines. She is also an author of fiction. She is a transgender woman. She lives in Boston.

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.

The Women Who Dreamed is about the woman naked, showing her full body to the men and women before her, as she is supposed to be. Sophia Marshall has been compared to e.e. cummings, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Emily Dickinson, and Sappho. She has published forty books, including 36 poetry books, two books of stories, and two books of criticism. She is a credentialed journalist and music critic as well as a poet, with credits in many journals and magazines. She is also an author of fiction. She is a transgender woman. She lives in Boston.

This is a book of a woman exploring her innermost desires and fantasies of being accepted and affirmed, and what it is like to experience being a woman as a transgender woman. It is raw, hardcore, and playful, a woman showing her nakedness. Sophia Marshall has been compared to e.e. cummings, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Emily Dickinson, and Sappho. She has published forty books, including 36 poetry books, two books of stories, and two books criticism. She is a credentialed journalist and music critic as well as a poet, with credits in many journals and magazines. She is also an author of fiction. She is a transgender woman. She lives in Boston.

A Transgender Woman is a book of 150 poems about being a transgender woman: her dress, sexuality, her encounters with other people. It explores the challenges, joys, and exhilarations of transitioning. It is challenging, unabashed, and bold, capturing the essence of one transgender woman's identity. 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.

The Dust of Magic is a book about dreams - and the magic they cast on our lives. How they influence us, give us joy, pleasure, delight, and fear. Each poem is an introspective look at how we make our inner lives part of our outer lives, and our outer lives part of our inner lives. 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.

This is a book about what makes a woman a woman, what she does, how she changes herself each day. A woman makes herself a woman every day, and it is always the same woman, but always different, who becomes more in touch with herself. 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. She has a blog, The Flash Boston (theflashboston.com), covering Boston music and culture. She is a transgender woman. She lives in Boston.

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 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.

This is a book of concert reviews composed in real time on Sophia Marshall's iPhone on the nights of the shows, and posted on her blog, The Flash Boston (theflashboston.com), the same night. The pieces illustrate the vibrant youth culture and music of the decade 2010-2020 in detail and bright colors. Some are free extemporizations without punctuation, some formal critiques. Marshall loved the Boston music scene, and went to a show most nights during that decade. 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.

A Hope of a Woman's World is a look at a woman looking at herself, at how her identity is formed out of her many separate selves, coming together, and reflecting, and refracting, who she is at her core. 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.

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.

Do you choose to be a woman? You choose to be a woman, but not just any woman, you choose to be the woman that you are, and she is special, because she is you, and you are special. This book is about being that special woman. Sophia Marshall has been compared to e.e. cummings, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Emily Dickinson, and Sappho. She has published forty books, including 36 poetry books, two books of stories, and two books of criticism. She is a credentialed journalist and music critic as well as a poet, with credits in many journals and magazines. She is also an author of fiction. She is a transgender woman. She lives in Boston.

Picture of a Woman is a picture of a woman looking at herself, and showing that picture to the women she loves, and to her society. It is a picture of grace and unabashed sexiness. It moves with the power of a woman. Sophia Marshall has been compared to e.e. cummings, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Emily Dickinson, and Sappho. She has published forty books, including 36 poetry books, two books of stories, and two books of criticism. She is a credentialed journalist and music critic as well as a poet, with credits in many journals and magazines. She is also an author of fiction. She is a transgender woman. She lives in Boston.

The Song of Peter Blackbridge is a novella about Boston music legend Peter Negroponte and the early days of his band Guerilla Toss. The mood of the underground rock scene of the teens is captured, and the personalities of the musicians, just out of music school, who would come to be dominant figures in the rock scene across the country. Boston is a locus of creativity, which this story shows through the fictionalized account of this band and others, in the exciting days of the creation of a new sound. Sophia Marshall has been compared to e.e. cummings, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Emily Dickinson, and Sappho. She has published forty books, including 36 poetry books, two books of stories, and two books of criticism. She is a credentialed journalist and music critic as well as a poet, with credits in many journals and magazines. She is also an author of fiction. She is a transgender woman. She lives in Boston.

This is a book about difference and likeness, how a woman finds what makes her special and unique in a world where she has so much in common with other women, which she wants, too. It is about journey, love, and discovery. 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. She has a blog, The Flash Boston (theflashboston.com), covering Boston music and culture. She is a transgender woman. She lives in Boston.

A Woman Who Looks at Today is a woman looking at what is right in her life, and the things she can change to make it better. It is always about today, and today we find what we need. 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.

This is a book that shows a woman expanding her world, looking at love, liberty, freedom, and all that it means to be a woman. Libertine, she says, because she is not afraid to show her body naked. 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.

Speeding Me is a book of poetry about music, art, the environment, and becoming a new person. This is the poetry of change. Sophia Marshall has been compared to e.e. cummings, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Emily Dickinson, and Sappho. She has published forty books, including 36 poetry books, two books of stories, and two books criticism. She is a credentialed journalist and music critic as well as a poet, with credits in many journals and magazines. She is also an author of fiction. She is a transgender woman. She lives in Boston.

This Playful Cat is 106-page book of poetry about my cat, Wallace. Wallace was a stray, found in a pet shelter in Rockport, Maine, and these are my reflections on loving him and becoming his owner. Many of the poems are humorous, some are philosophical, but they are all deep, and honest, demonstrations of my love for animals. 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 lives in Boston.