lover boy

"lover boy, oh lover boy / how i need you so. / without you there would not be a me, / you absolutely saved this soul."

in this intimate collection of poetry and prose, Courtney Ann invites you into the most vulnerable corners of love-not just romantic love, but the harder journey of learning to love yourself.

through four powerful sections-on saving, on growing, on loving, and on healing-these poems trace a path from darkness to light, from losing your identity to reclaiming it, from silent panic attacks to choosing yourself.

raw, sensual, and unflinchingly honest, these are love letters written in the language of survival. here you'll find midnight confessions about depression, playful medieval seductions, and the quiet triumph of learning that anxiety might be the itch you can't scratch, but not today.

this is for anyone who has ever felt lost in their own life. for those who understand that healing comes after loving, not before. for those brave enough to admit that sometimes the hardest person to write a love letter to is yourself.

"lover boy: letters to my lover" is a poetry collection that reads like intercepted messages between souls, some days speaking to a lover, some days to life itself, and on the bravest days, to the person in the mirror.