Let Me Write This Gently, My Baby
by Lisa Marie Lovett
A poetry collection that writes toward the things we carry quietly — love, loss, the body, the ways we hold ourselves together and come undone. Lovett writes with the kind of precision that makes you feel seen in places you didn’t know you were hiding.
“Let me write this gently, my baby, because you deserve the softest version of the truth.”
What It Actually Felt Like
I started 2026 with this book and I honestly couldn’t have picked a better place to begin. There’s a tenderness in this collection that sneaks up on you. Lovett writes about love and grief and the body with a quiet precision that makes you stop mid-page and just sit with it for a second.
I don’t read a lot of poetry but her Instagram post speak to me every single time, they feel like a warm hug that invites honest reflection, her book was no different. The kind of writing that makes you slow down on purpose because you don’t want to miss anything and you want to feel everything. Some pages I read more than once just because I wasn’t ready to move on yet.
The Honest Part
If you’re not a poetry reader this might make you more of one. Give it a few pages before you decide. It earns your patience and then some.
Who This Is For
Anyone who has loved someone so much it made them nervous. Anyone who has lost someone and doesn’t know what to do with all the feeling that’s still left. This collection was made for you.
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Every star earned.
Tags poetry, Black women authors, emotional, mood: tender and quiet
