Song of My Softening YA_Gift_Guide *This book is set in

*This book is set in a shared world with authors Lauren Biel

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Song of My Softening YA_Gift_Guide *This book is set inA Finalist for a 2025 NAACP Image Award (Outstanding Literary Work Poetry)The raw poems inside Song of My Softening study the everchanging relationship with oneself, while also investigating the relationship that the world and nation has with Black queerness. Poems open wide the questioning of how we express both love and pain, and how we view our bodies in society, offering themselves wholly, with sharpness and compassion.