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From adolescence through early adulthood, these poems chart the inner world of someone learning love, identity, and truth in real time. Heavy is the Head is a Notes-app confessional turned altar for anyone who grew up fast and is now learning to own their truth, forgive, unravel, rest, and ultimately return to themselves.
“Through careful timestamps of trauma and triumph, Savannah effortlessly constructs a grandfather clock of experience—one whose pendulum swings between the aching finality of our past and the unknown inevitability of our future, but whose center provides a space for cathartic conversation that will leave the reader both vindicated and vulnerable.”
— Bailey Mount, Reformed Journalist & Developing Writer
“While not openly calling herself a wordsmith, this beautiful poet expresses herself in words that both claim and question. She is powerful, especially because she holds nothing back. I’m so happy I have a signed copy of her iconic works in my personal library”
— Tiffany Vakilian, Bestselling Author & Editor of Bestsellers
“Raw beauty. It captures the essence of what it means to find strength in vulnerability. Her delicate balance of empowerment through pain is like swimming with the tides — we get a front-row seat to her depths as she rises to the surface.”
— Aliyah Abdullah, Storyteller & Researcher
Each piece came to me in fragments, time-stamped by their proximity to truth. I didn’t originally write these poems to be read. I wrote them to make sense of the memories that shaped me, the grief I inherited, and the love I had to redefine on my own terms…
© 2024 Ennovy Savannah Bowman