![]() ![]() Or like she cut me open and smeared my insides all over a glass pane, for everyone to witness.” Shortly after finishing my first read, I texted my friend: “It was as though she performed open heart surgery on me and I was awake. “Closer Baby Closer” marries the stylistic maturity of “Sweetdark” with the intense relatability of “Graffiti,” marking it as her strongest collection yet.īrown demonstrates a piercing ability to describe intimate moments from past relationships with painful specificity, articulating buried grief over ex-lovers that sometimes seem to escape language. Whereas “Graffiti” contained some of her most vulnerable and relatable work, her second collection, “Sweetdark,” sees Brown venturing into new stylistic territory with distinct technical prowess. “Closer Baby Closer” also happens to be my favorite work of hers. “Closer Baby Closer” is her first title published under Doomsday. ![]() From her first collection, “Graffiti,” which features poems about adolescent fears, to her two novels, “The Truth About Keeping Secrets” and “The Things We Don’t See,” Brown’s dark, moody lyricism and pensive writing style has held an unrelenting grip on her readers.īrown founded Doomsday Press, an independent publishing company, in 2022, after realizing that traditional publishing just wasn’t her thing. Savannah Brown is 26 years old, and has already accumulated an impressive literary career. ![]()
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