Daylight/Savings

Author: Lucy Alford

Publisher: Black Square Editions (2026)

Subversive is an overused compliment, but these poems with their attention on the oyster’s taste, the braiding of onions, the swell of boiled peanuts, and so many kinds of apples read as seditious. They point to how to be in relationship not just with each other but with the sorts of noticing that are temporal and seasonal, the sorts that cannot be parsed or commodified by this algorithmic era. —Juliana Spahr