This is a book about a woman becoming a butterfly, breaking out of her cocoon, and becoming a woman, because a woman is a butterfly, and she chooses the field she flies in, and she flies.

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.