Organized chronologically, Alice O. Howell's poems tell the story of a deeply human life, one devoted to the spirit, to continuous transformation, and both inner and outer development. Through
different forms-poetic and experiential-the poems trace in an unusual way one woman's path to the embodiment of Wisdom, who she calls Sophia. As they map her life, the poems move from the
visionary and philosophical to the mythological and Jungian-psychological. At the same time, since life is also always lived in relationship, these themes are extraordinarily and constantly
yeasted by intimate, deeply moving love poems.
