Song of My Softening in Bloomington, MN

Recommended by Cosmopolitan, USA Today, Shondaland, & Book Riot
“It’s not often that fat women feel such thorough representation of themselves not only in poetry but in any media and not only in the beautiful moments but in the sorrowful ones, ranging throughout life. James does a brilliant job of portraying this and all her themes brilliantly; highly recommended.”
—Starred review by
Library Journal
The raw poems inside
Song of My Softening
studies the ever-changing 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.