dayliGht by Marsh Roya

dayliGht

Marsh Roya

A necessary new voice explores sexuality, grief, and the resilience of the Black woman in an unconventional yet highly accessible debut poetry collection’–

Growing up, Roya Marsh was considered “tomboy passing.’ With an affinity for baggy clothes, cornrows, and bandanas, she came of age in an era when the wide spectrum of gender and sexuality was rarely acknowledged or discussed. She knew she was “different,” her family knew she was “different,” but anything outside of the heteronorm was either disregarded or disparaged.

In her stunning debut, written in protest to an absence of representation, Marsh recalls her early life and the attendant torments of a butch Black woman coming of age in America. In lush, powerful, and vulnerable verses, dayliGht unpacks traumas to unearth truths, revealing a deep well of resilience, a cutting sense of irony, and an astonishing fresh talent.

dayliGht is a dazzling collection of poems from a necessary new voice, at once a clarion call for stories of Black women and a rebuke of broken notions of sexuality and race.


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ISBN 9780374538897
Genre Black Interest; Poetry
Publication Date 31-Mar-20
Publisher MCD x FSG Originals
Format Paperback
No. of Pages 112
LoC Classification PS3613.A76987 .D39 2020
Rating NotRated
Subject Women, Black – Poetry
BookID 15188

Author: LFWBooks