Name: Closer Baby Closer
ISBN: 9781739618100

Savannah Brown

In this dazzling third collection, poet Savannah Brown holds a magnifying glass to modern intimacy with a lens that burns as often as it illuminates. Moths, ex-lovers, Jeff Bezos, and other supernatural creatures flit through the pages as Brown charts her own cartographies through London and the world wide web seething in everybody's pocket. These poems pinch and pull through the smallest moments, like someone trying to zoom in on a smartphone photo, or someone in the thrall of a bad, bad habit.

Closer Baby Closer

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I've filled journals with fantasies about people who hate me,

imprisoned people in my mind, and they're still there.

Feeling something that is almost pain. Their aliveness

they're sucking the sound of the sea out of me,

a worm with my face rolls around on the bed sheet, 

says if I wasn't put on the planet to worry, then God,

if a part of the world was made for you it is not here

you have never been further from love cut in your shape

- savannah brown is my favorite poet, and one of my favorite people alive today

- it's tremendously difficult to say anything about this book without just going on about how obsessed i am with savannah brown as a writer and a thinker and a poet. her ramblings on 

 are all just... wonderful. if you don't engage with any of her content currently, i would highly encourage you do so now

- small note about the poetry: it's fantastic, and much like her youtube videos, relationships and connections with other people and your self are the main topics of interest. it's a very easy collection to read, but still rewarding

- it is, admittedly, kind of hard to look at this collection with an unbiased eye, which is why i haven't written reviews for it with any real substance to them in the past. i'll return to this collection soon and try to have a more analytical eye next time

- i look at you and lose language

- savannah brown is my favorite poet, and one of my favorite people alive today

- it's tremendously difficult to say anything about this book without just going on about how obsessed i am with savannah brown as a writer and a thinker and a poet. her ramblings on human connection and love and shame are all just... wonderful. if you don't engage with any of her content currently, i would highly encourage you do so now

- small note about the poetry: it's fantastic, and much like her youtube videos, relationships and connections with other people and your self are the main topics of interest. it's a very easy collection to read, but still rewarding

- it is, admittedly, kind of hard to look at this collection with an unbiased eye, which is why i haven't written reviews for it with any real substance to them in the past. i'll return to this collection soon and try to have a more analytical eye next time

Closer Baby Closer

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