{"id":464957,"date":"2020-02-03T12:48:01","date_gmt":"2020-02-03T12:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/?p=464957"},"modified":"2020-02-03T12:48:01","modified_gmt":"2020-02-03T12:48:01","slug":"emmy-winner-and-clinical-psychologist-donny-jackson-releases-debut-poetry-collection-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/emmy-winner-and-clinical-psychologist-donny-jackson-releases-debut-poetry-collection-boy_464957.html","title":{"rendered":"Emmy Winner and Clinical Psychologist Donny Jackson Releases Debut Poetry Collection, \u201cboy\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Long Beach, CA – February 3, 2020<\/strong> –<\/strong> Trying to describe today’s world is a monumental undertaking, given the complex, intertwined currents that are running across lives and the world at large. The debut work of Emmy award-winning documentary maker and clinical psychologist, Donny Jackson, has taken on the challenge with a collection of incisive poems. The work is called <\/span>boy<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

boy<\/span> by Donny Jackson defies any strict categorization into a genre or school of thought. The verses are freewheeling, yet sharp; abstract yet meaningful.  <\/span><\/p>\n

As described by the publisher: “<\/span>boy<\/span> is an awakening on an ocean floor of “othering”, be it color or gender or place. It’s about the rise from personae to an unflinching eyewitness, and then to a devastatingly personal emergence in a cultural tsunami, exemplified by the image of a swimmer gasping for air.”<\/span><\/p>\n

The collection comprises three sections; <\/span>“i”<\/span>, which focuses on poetry written from the perspective of someone else, <\/span>“they”<\/span>, which focuses on living history histories, and <\/span>i<\/span> which are tellings from the poet’s own view. The work touches upon many themes and topics – from Black America to justice issues everywhere – each holding a myriad of meanings, secrets, raw feelings and emotions as exemplified below:<\/span><\/p>\n

In ‘Poet’, the author writes, “Please roam among my stories, for we are the sole pair here; and words are the only stray animals I can fit into this ark.”<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

In ‘Lead’, “I watch him close his eyes, and wonder if his dreams are gagging on men in suits, who have never been on this street.”<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

In ‘Train’, “I cannot yet forgive my thighs, for not becoming jaws, and crushing his thrust into powder.”<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

In ‘Patrolman’s Wife’, “He looks only like a husband when he puts on his t-shirt.”<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Donny Jackson is a writer, performer, producer, and clinical psychologist based in Los Angeles. In addition to his spoken word plays, “One Man Shown” and “salome: ten poems about one thing”, Dr. Donny’s poems have appeared in La Bloga Online Floricanto’s 10 Best Poems of 2015 and -2017, Skin to Skin: a magazine for women of the LGBT community, as well as multiple anthologies, including, “The Border Crossed Us: An Anthology to End Apartheid” (Winner of the 2016 International Latino Book Award for Best Anthology), Incandescent Mind, and The Garden of Black Joy. He is also an NAACP Image Award-winning producer and multiple Emmy Award-winning showrunner of documentary television.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Excerpt from the poem ‘Newborn’:<\/span><\/p>\n

she tucks him into her kiss
hollows out the night of its frightened men who could be weapons
lets the dark be as heron bones
at last a sleepy sleep<\/em><\/p>\n

a soaring quarter rest
far above the aboves
its shadow
made of wool
scrolled upon the two of them like covenant
each one
the other’s
amen<\/em><\/p>\n

Media Contact<\/span>
Company Name:<\/strong> Silver Star Laboratory LLC<\/a>
Contact Person:<\/strong> Radhika Jaini
Email:<\/strong> Send Email<\/a>
Phone:<\/strong> 562-273-6433
Address:<\/strong>2201 N. Lakewood Blvd, #D1887
City:<\/strong> Long Beach
State:<\/strong> CA 90815
Country:<\/strong> United States
Website:<\/strong> https:\/\/donnyjacksonpoetry.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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