dayliGht

Poems

De: Roya Marsh

Narrado por: Roya Marsh

This program is read by the author.

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.

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.

A Macmillan Audio production from MCD x FSG Originals

©2020 Roya Marsh (P)2020 Macmillan Audio

Both physical copy and audio are MUST HAVES

Great add to my library & the audio version is just as necessary. Love this author and her performance!

in broad daylight...

Roya Marsh sits a reader down on the front stoop & outlines the ways humanity can glisten & create rays of sunshine through the use of voice. This book deserves to receive all the prizes & accolades the publishing industry can present it. Stunningly honest, lyrical & fulfilling.