She Gets Strong

She Gets Strong is about a woman getting what she needs and what she wants, realizing herself and her identity through her past and her future, which is all up to her. A woman getting stronger is a woman speaking to others, speaking to the earth, and speaking to 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, 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.