Savings time : poems

Savings time Poems

Roya Marsh, 1988-

Book - 2025

"A poetry collection exploring the dueling Black rage and Black joy inherent to grief and healing in a broken world, from the Lambda Literary Award-nominated author of dayliGht"--

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Subjects
Women, Black > Poetry.
Femmes noires > Poésie.
poetry.
Poetry.
Poésie.
Genres
poetry
Poetry
Poésie
Published
New York : MCD / Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2025.
Language
English
Main Author
Roya Marsh, 1988- (author)
Edition
First edition
Physical Description
xii, 112 pages ; 20 cm
ISBN
9780374615796
  • A Note from the Author
  • What are the rights to your existence?
  • Visions
  • The truth
  • Admissions of guilt
  • Sometimes what doesn't kill me makes me wish i were dead
  • This one
  • Remember that time
  • Admissions of guilt, too
  • What if…
  • Having a panic attack in the back seat of an Uber
  • QTNA
  • Scorpion Unit: elegy for Tyre Nichols
  • Living dead
  • Blk Girl Puns
  • I nipped a table once
  • He seemed so nice
  • What's the most beautiful thing?
  • My mind is a gun
  • All of the women in me are Black
  • I must tell you
  • Dear Black Child
  • Spitfire, too
  • The N Word
  • Ode to Fetty Wap written after Strip Club
  • Gaygrl
  • Dyke Privilege
  • An Ode to The Color Purple or Black Women Bleed, too
  • My country 'tis of thee
  • Hypersensitivity
  • The New Black
  • Kathy Griffin is photographed holding bloodied head of Trump: The Hand Speaks
  • People want to see our pain
  • Blk Rage
  • Blk Joy
  • These soiled hands
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
Review by Booklist Review

Marsh's second collection, following dayliGhit (2020), opens with an author's note that frames the work and provides an entry point; "These poems want you to ask questions and to think critically about how you engage with the world around you. These poems are going to encourage you to find joy in the ordinary." She admits, "There are days when I am weary to my soul. But people everywhere are dying to live free and that ancestral vigor is in me. I know I have to live," and thus, Marsh crystallizes the intention of this generous and vital work. Known for her spoken-word poetry, Marsh's print poems climb off the page and stand tall in many contexts. While musical and expertly paced, the poems are also notable for language that matches emotion with expert precision ("Having a panic attack in the back seat of an Uber"), for their rejection of veiling what must be said ("I don't write / metaphors about / caskets and burials"), and for the discourse that opens with Marsh's honesty, then moves forward to ask essential questions of us all.

From Booklist, Copyright (c) American Library Association. Used with permission.

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