Some of my favorite poems in Savannah Brown’s “Closer Baby Closer” Collection

The cover to her latest collection, published in October 2023.

All the poems in this collection are free verse and as expected come with their strengths and weaknesses. A strength is the ability for poets to replicate their actual, unadorned voice in their head, allowing readers to experience as close as possible their consciousness or point of view. A weakness is that as readers we rarely are privy to the outside. I…