Corpus Homini

Overview

"For those who, as Sofía Starnes puts it, “hazard holiness,” the world, which must be loved, also requires a strange and luminous patience that her poems celebrate and embody, sometimes impatiently, as they seek the numinous: “It is as though a household knocker rapped: Keep close to home; / Keep home. As if a distant continent crept into my room.” Her challenging lyrical explorations echo Emily Dickinson and Gerard Manley Hopkins, but her voice is all her own—jazzy, lyrical, acerbic, and mystical: “A child is what she is; // not the day, / not the doubt my word careens against— // There I go now, forgetting.” You will not read a better, stranger book this year". -- Andrew Hudgins

Author Biography

Sofia M. Starnes was born in Manila and educated in Madrid. She arrived in the United States in 1986 and became a U.S. citizen in 1989. Her publications include The Soul’s Landscape (Aldrich, 2002), co-winner of the Aldrich Chapbook Poetry Award, judged by Billy Collins, and A Commerce of Moments (Pavement Saw Press, 2003), Editor’s Choice in the Transcontinental Poetry Book Prize and a Poetry Honor Book in the Library of Virginia Literary Awards Competition. Corpus Homini won the 2008 Wings Press Whitebird Chapbook Series competition. Her poems and essays have also appeared in numerous literary journals, including Hayden’s Ferry, Laurel Review, Notre Dame Review, Gulf Coast, Southern Poetry Review, Marlboro Review, and Pleiades.