This is a book about a woman in touch with her body. It is physical and sensual and sexual, and even kinky. It explores a woman's nudity and what it means to be a naked woman. So much of it happens at the beach. Because the beach changes you. Sophia Marshall has gone farther than any woman before.
Sophia Marshall has been compared to e.e. cummings, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Emily Dickinson, and Sappho. She has published fifty poetry books, two books of stories, two books of criticism, and a novella. She is a credentialed journalist and music critic as well as a poet, with credits in many journals and magazines. She is a transgender woman. She lives in Boston.