The Poet of The Poet The choice of poem from Sophia’s work to be set “in conversation” with Todd Turner’s Wondrous Lessons can only be the one which Todd has threaded into the sequence. The Poet comes from Sophia’s first collection, Antiquity. The image accompanying the text of the poem is a photo of Sophia taken at the age at which she wrote The Poet: at age 13. You will forgive the title, The Poet
“Out of the Underworld of Loss”… Todd Turner’s poem sequence, Wondrous Lessons, written for Sophia’s Notebook, is indeed both wonderful and full of rich insight. Reflecting the conversation with time (capital-T Time) which Sophia thought so necessary to both art and society, Todd draws on the life and work of Keats as the frame for the text. Keats, like Sophia, died very young (at 25 to Sophia’s 22), but he also (as did Sophia) achieved