The Figure of a Woman

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.