Fully into Ashes

Overview

Written in a modern and experimental style, this poetry compilation by Sofia M. Starnes contemplates the aesthetics of faith. Often drawing from Bible stories, this collection indirectly alludes to Christian themes and creates extended metaphors that spill from one poem to another. Filled with passionately physical imagery, this is Starnes’s quest for spiritual union with the Trinity.

Reviews

"Fully into Ashes, the fourth collection by Sofia M. Starnes . . . courts the ineffable with cascading images and luscious language. . . . Without seeming derivative of Gerard Manley Hopkins, Starnes writes poetry, let us guess, that Hopkins would appreciate. . . . Starnes writes frankly, passionately within a Christian framework, always taking her faith as a given. But over and over, she pushes it into the realm of Mystery, the only nexus possible to faith and art." —www.CerisePress.com

Author Biography

Sofia M. Starnes is a poet and the poetry editor of the Anglican Theological Review. She is the author of A Commerce of Moments, Corpus Homini, and The Soul’s Landscape, and the recipient of various awards, including the Aldrich Chapbook Poetry Award, the Rainer Maria Rilke Poetry Award, and the Transcontinental Poetry Book Prize. Her poems and essays have also appeared in numerous literary journals, such as Laurel Review, Pleiades, and Southern Poetry Review. She lives in Williamsburg, Virginia.