The Song of Peter Blackbridge

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.