savings time
Poems
by Roya Marsh
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Pub Date Feb 04 2025 | Archive Date Mar 04 2025
Description
The Bronx born activist and poet Roya Marsh returns with a riveting exploration of Black joy, collective action, and healing.
what will come of what you leave behind?
do you
remember that time
you survived?
The poems in Roya Marsh’s second collection, savings time, wear their raw feeling and revolutionary forcefulness on their sleeves. Alternating between confrontation and celebration, Marsh trains her unsparing eye on the twinned subjects of Black rage and Black healing with practiced, musical intention.
In poems flitting between breathless prose and measured lyricism, Marsh contemplates the contradictions and challenges of Black life in America, tackling everything from police brutality and urban gentrification to queer identity, presidential elections, and pop culture, all while calling for a world where self-care, especially for Black women, is not just encouraged but mandated. “no one told the Black girl,” she writes, “‘see you later’ was a prayer / begging us survive our own erasure.”
As unforgettable on the page as when recited in Marsh’s legendary spoken-word performances, the poems in savings time are focused on both revolution and self-love, at once holding society accountable for its exploitation of Black life and honoring the joy of persisting nonetheless.
A Note From the Publisher
Advance Praise
"If you point me in the direction of the nearest church / I'd run inside and scream Roya Marsh's name. // For if God saves her, / she will save us. // She is not writing for the sake of poetry, / But for the sake of our souls." —Jasmine Mans, author of Black Girl, Call Home
"Roya Marsh has offered a collection of work for those who are ready to feel something, to remember something, to imagine something. savings time invites us, above all, to be honest with ourselves about the world we live in—Marsh gives us the language to do so." —Rachel Cargle, author of A Renaissance of Our Own
"Scientists have reported that time is literally speeding up. However, Roya Marsh's new work reminds us that it is Black, queer, artists who bend time, who sculpt it with language and truth. These poems ask us to reclaim our time; to tenderly coax the future from the hands of so much oppression. This work reminds us, it is indeed us, who will save time." —Sonya Renee Taylor, author of The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love
“In a world of too much curation that desperately clings to performative patterns and homogeneous hashtags, Roya Marsh’s savings time is your beloved, your breaking heart, your own mirror gently beckoning you out of every useless façade of restraint or good behavior and back into the light of all that still lingers. Roya’s poems remind us of what these poems can do: uncover, un-shame, and unbury.” —Candice Iloh, author of Salt the Water
"In savings time, Roya Marsh sharpens her words like a razor, cutting through the layers of identity, trauma, and defiance with a voice that is as relentless as it is tender. These poems are not just read but felt, each one a visceral reminder of the ongoing struggle to exist fully in a world that too often attempts to erase you. Marsh's poetry collection is a fierce, unapologetic and bluesy anthem for anyone who’s ever been told they’re too much or not enough." —Frederick Joseph, national bestselling author of We Alive, Beloved
Available Editions
| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9780374615796 |
| PRICE | $17.00 (USD) |
| PAGES | 128 |
