"Brown’s third collection of poetry is obsessive and breathless, distant yet stirringly intimate. Intertwining existential musings with everyday moments of beauty and concern, the poet brings us closer to a love fraught with modern-day dangers."

Love in All Its Contemporary Glory: Strange, Sexy Paradoxes in Savannah Brown's 'Closer Baby Closer'

"Sometimes I imagine we grew up together as children. That I was there when you took an apple from the tree, before you were allergic. I can’t be sure you’d have loved me then. I can’t be sure you love me now."

I Will Keep Your Middle Name: A Friend Breakup Grief Diary

"we are thinking
who's the child

when the door is open
for downed dinner

and you are mother

and i am        the quiver"

hold-out kitchen

"They live as archetypes in your favorite fairy tales and myths; they are being hunted for how they depart from the norm in your history books. The witch is your friendly, albeit distant, neighbor with talismans and an herb garden."

Tapping Into the Power of the Feminine With 'Witchcraft. The Library of Esoterica'

"With a mix of sharp-witted comedy and heartfelt intimacy, Our Flag Means Death does more than simply remix history with humor — it creates an indulgent, complex, and real queer love story that queer people everywhere have latched onto."

It Feels Easy: How ‘Our Flag Means Death’ Creates Queer Comfort

"Self-loathing, confessions of childhood hurt, fresh, raw anger over mistreatment merge with uptempo arrangements to form ... songs that are meditative ... refreshingly delicious, calling Swift’s extensive pop past to mind without being derivative."

Turi Sioson

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