This Playful Cat

This Playful Cat is 106-page book of poetry about my cat, Wallace. Wallace was a stray, found in a pet shelter in Rockport, Maine, and these are my reflections on loving him and becoming his owner. Many of the poems are humorous, some are philosophical, but they are all deep, and honest, demonstrations of my love for animals. 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 lives in Boston.