Böcker av Emanuel Xavier

"A thought-provoking collection of poetry that delves into themes of identity, love, and self-discovery. Each poem is a journey into the complexities of the human experience navigating sensitive topics with honesty and vulnerability. With a unique blend of personal anecdotes and social commentary, Love(ly) Child offers a captivating exploration of life's highs and lows, leaving a lasting impact on those who immerse themselves in its pages."--

Por primera vez, una colección de poesía seleccionada de Emanuel Xavier, reconocido poeta LGBTQ y uno de los tesoros de la comunidad latina.Cuando emergió por primera vez como un poeta del Nuyorican Poets Café en la década de los 90s, Emanuel Xavier rápidamente ocupó su lugar como uno de los primeros poetas abiertamente queer, celebrados, controvertidos y significativos de la época. Ahora, décadas más tarde, como ex adolescente sin hogar y sobreviviente de un crimen de odio, Xavier sigue siendo una de las voces más inspiradoras y poderosas de Estados Unidos."Una voz provocadora del espacio liminal latinx, Xavier se turna para seducir y alertar al lector con una sensualidad intrépida y una sabia falta de arrepentimiento. Una colección muy necesaria y astuta que vive en la intersección del deseo crudo y una profunda compasión por las personas marginadas". - Ed Morales, autor, periodista, cineasta y poeta"Durante décadas, Emanuel Xavier ha sido nuestro poeta de las calles, de los balls, del muelle, a través de nuestros amores, vidas perdidas y en el crecimiento y ruina de nuestra ciudad. Finalmente, una nueva generación tiene la oportunidad de respirar a través de sus poemas recopilados, un monumento a nuestro pasado, nuestra colectividad y nuestros corazones". - Sarah Schulman, autora y activistaPoeta y activista, Emanuel Xavier nació en Brooklyn, Nueva York, y se involucró en la escena del ball como un adolescente gay sin hogar. Xavier ha recibido el reconocimiento como artista de la palabra hablada de colegios y universidades nacionales. Ha sido nombrado Ícono LGBTQ por The Equality Forum y ha recibido un Premio de Mención del Ayuntamiento de la Ciudad de Nueva York. Xavier ha recibido un International Latino Book Award, nominaciones al premio Lambda Literary y selecciones de libros Over the Rainbow de la American Library Association por sus colecciones que incluyen: Pier Queen, Americano, If Jesus Were Gay, Nefarious y Radiance. Ha recibido un premio Gay City Impact y el premio Marsha A. Gomez Cultural Heritage Award.

For the first time ever, a selected poetry collection from Emanuel Xavier, renowned LGBTQ poet and one of the Latinx community's treasures.When he first emerged as a Nuyorican Poets Café slam poet in the 1990s, Emanuel Xavier quickly took his place as one of the first openly queer, celebrated, controversial and significant poets of the era. Now, decades later, as a former homeless teen and a hate crime survivor, Xavier still stands as one of America's most inspiring and powerful voices."Gay Nuyorican life is limned and exalted in these scintillating poems. Xavier, a fixture at Nuyorican Poets Cafe slams in Manhattan and a star of HBO's Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry, gathers 28 poems that infuse searing social and political commentary into achingly personal reflections. Many paint a panorama of New York that is bustling and vibrant: 'Ricans and Dominicans drive around / with black-faced virgins and saints on their dashboards / blasting rap and freestyle / down the streets.' The poet's collection conveys his struggle as a gay man in an often homophobic culture in tones that range from the bruised confessional in 'Deliverance' ('Wiping / myself / staring at the blood / shit / scum / from the last trick / that once again / left me bruised / deep inside') to the prophetic voice of 'If Jesus Were Gay.' ('If the crown of thorns were placed on his head / to mock him as the / 'Queen of the Jews' / If he was whipped because fags are considered / sadomasochistic sodomites, / If he was crucified for the brotherhood of man / would you still repent?') There's a lot of pain from separation and repudiation in Xavier's verse-from his biological father's abandonment of the family, his mother's rejection of his gay sexuality, and America's disdain for Latino immigrants. The volume is thus full of poetic portraits of outsiders and castoffs that can take strange and hallucinatory forms, as in 'Bushwick Bohemia, ' where a slacker is 'lying shirtless on the couch blunted out of his mind / staring at the roach on the ceiling / one single roach in a vast desert / or maybe an alien exploring a new world'-a grungy, Kafkaesque yet somehow hopeful and even liberating tableau of arrival and persistence. And the poet's life generates bleak, bracing wisdom in 'Beside Myself': 'You are not going to be remembered. / The best thing you ever did was keep a cat / alive for over sixteen years. / All you have is that rent-stabilized apartment / with the cracked paint and broken windows.' Xavier's many fans (and newbies as well) will be entranced by his evocative language, subtle rhythms, and fearless gaze." -Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

"Emanuel Xavier's newest book radiates in diverse directions, back into a past of New York club kid glamour and violence, into a family history of lost connections, and into loves forfeited and found-all of which the poet illumines with steady-eyed honesty. Finally, as he confronts a health challenge to the very brain that is the root-place of these sharp and poignant poems, radiation becomes radiance, a hard-won inner light that lets us all see how 'splendid is our survival.'" -David Groff, author of Clay

With heartfelt honesty, Emanuel Xavier's fourth full-length poetry collection "Nefarious" welcomes the reader into the later second act of a former underage prostitute. This book captures insights into his private world; relationships, heartbreaks, life as a spoken word artist, time spent with his cat, aging. With a dose of dark humor, Xavier's pleasure in the written word and his passion makes this an engaging collection.

An expanded edition of the poetry collection originally published in 2002.

Self-published as a chapbook in 1997, Pier Queen launched the career of spoken word artist and poet Emanuel Xavier with classics such as "Tradiciones" and "Nueva York"-both featured on Russell Simmons presents Def Poetry-and other poems which captured the voice of a generation of queer people of color. For the first time ever, this ground-breaking collection becomes available featuring snapshots taken at the West Side Highway piers throughout the years by photographer Richard Renaldi. This collaboration is a gift to the LGBTQ community and for those who may be interested in how pier queens became poets and great artists against all odds to inspire others to rise above adversity. Photography by Richard Renaldi.

Mikey is a spirited but self-destructive survivor of sexual abuse, a gay Latino native New Yorker caught somewhere between Catholic guilt and club kid decadence looking to fit in as part of a family. Instead, Mikey delves into a demimonde of petty thieves, prostitutes, and pushers. Haunted by a father that Mikey has never met, a difficult childhood, recurring nightmares, the reality of death, and Christ, the story unfolds through the '80's and '90's following him on his journey through a fascinating world filled with Santeros, transsexuals and voguing queens.