I Can't Stop Writing About the Music

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.