She Will Be a Woman

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.