Jackson Harlem
Jackson Harlem, My Southern-Fried Affair & Black Boy Juice.
Excerpt from backcover of My Southern-Fried Affair:
Jackson Harlem’s ground-breaking poetic debut, My Southern-Fried Affair, captures the essence of the modern voice with a timeless literary wisdom. While fusing innocent eloquence with an immense provocative passion, Harlem shifts from different characters and perspectives, ranging from a southern-gentlemanly romance to mystic acclamations against racism.
Stepping out of his own persona, Harlem takes on not only characters, but the personified minds of objects themselves, like cigarettes and notebooks, expanding the realms of literature to the experience of what he calls the “experience of all things” through his “out of body approach to personification”.
By beautifully exploiting the fundamentals of poetry, Harlem draws upon his unique experiences to chronicle his stories into morsels of poetry, making
My Southern-Fried Affair a deliciously challenging invite for readers to enter a new world of social and intellectual enlightenment, romantic sentiment, and sensual exoticism.
From the kitchen to the church, from the classroom to the bedroom, Jackson Harlem’s My Southern-Fried Affair recounts a provoking, yet distinct 21st-century experience of today’s young Black America brilliantly.