Couplet by couplet, Sofia Starnes leads her readers on a poetic quest for understanding. Her perfect pitch and her acute sensitivity to the pace and nuances of language are reason enough for us to follow. A Commerce of Moments is a gathering of very special poems.

A Commerce of Moments is a work of awe-inspiring clarity and purity of language from a poet whose wide-awake eyes allow us to experience a vivid, lasting world. Blessed is a poet so con-nected to what is most essential to this life, and perhaps the next, too. This book will enchant; a fine collection indeed.

In her first collection, Starnes shows us a world-view of dilemmas treated with compassion of the rarest sort, the act of listening and composing with a vivid transfer of feeling. The book is a rare occasion of thorough enjoyment.