boy

boy, the debut poetry collection by Donny Jackson--veteran poet, clinical psychologist, and Emmy Award-winning documentary television producer--is an awakening on an ocean floor of othering, be it color or gender or place, and rise from personae, to unflinching eyewitness, to a devastatingly personal emergence in a cultural tsunami, the swimmer gasping for air.

"Compressed. Reflecting the eye of the documentarian who knows "i am news for not being new." Coded. Asking "if this is innocent ho...