The Misunderstanding of Nature

Sophie Cabot Black is an unabashedly passionate poet.

Her first collection encompasses two New Worlds: the contemporary one and the one of seventeenth-century New England.

At its epiphany, this collection presents a long poem called 'The Arguments, ' a monologue in the voice of Dorothy Bradford, one of the first Englishwomen to have set foot in America.

Through her complicated search for transcendence, we overhear the movements of learning to belong, caught at the rim of the wilderness.