 THE
SKI TRIP
CO-STARRING EMANUEL XAVIER AS "CARLOS"
Directed by Maurice Jamal. Featured
on MTV's LOGO as the first gay black and Latino film aired on television.
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 RUSSELL SIMMONS PRESENTS DEF POETRY SEASON 3
FEATURING EMANUEL XAVIER
Taped before a live audience at The Supper Club in New York, each installment of Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry is hosted by popular rap artist/actor Mos Def, and spotlights original material performed by contemporary urban poets and well-known music/comedy artists.
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 Bullets & Butterflies
Edited by Emanuel Xavier
"Rarely is the sport of literary criticism more popular than when spoken word is being bashed. With staccato skill and fierceness, however, the poets of Emanuel Xavier's anthology handily disarm the critics."
-Genre
"Though the poems were intended to be performed aloud, their transition to the page proves seamless as each entry captures a raw essence that helps them speak for themselves."
- HX Magazine
"Xavier, an outstanding poet and gifted orator with a personal history as powerful as his poetry, has lined up an army of comrades led by some of the most uninhibited and talented poets of his generation . . . If words could catch paper on fire, Bullets & Butterflies could burn down every bookstore and library in the world"
- Alexander Renault
"Bullets & Butterflies restores some much-needed honesty to the [spoken word] genre with its poignant poems, which touch upon subjects such as love, identity, ruptured families, revolution, death, rejection and bigotry."
- New York Post
"Round out your queer canon with a couple of cannonballs fired straight from the militant front lines of urban spoken word expression. All the poets you know (or will soon enough) from around town are anthologized in this slim but potent collection. Led by Puerto Rican wordsmith (and extreme cutie) Emanuel Xavier, the rough riders of the new poetic frontier are blazing in their saddles here, spittin' the kind of politically-charged-fire-tempered-with-humor that makes us love these bad boys so."
- Next Magazine
Additional Reviews: Erotica Readers Review
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 AMERICANO
POEMS by Emanuel Xavier
"The product of years of experience, the poems in Americano were influenced by the horrors of 9-11-2001 as well as by the singular experiences of being half-Ecuadorian, half-Nuyorican; a victim of sexual abuse; a former hustler and drug-dealer; and 100% a poet. The 35 poems that fill the pages of Americano deal with topics that we are “not supposed” to talk about: religion and politics; violence and race and sex - simply the stuff that great poems are made of."
"Xavier brings us wide-eyed into his complex life, full of childhood abuse and anger, too many nameless lovers, contemplations on the Latino/gay/American dream, and the pitfalls of ambition and desire . . . This is an extraordinary volume of thirty-five poems, and it is not possible to read Xavier's work and come away without a fresh new look at a time and a place in a culture -- our culture -- that can never be brought to the light often enough."
- Clean Sheets
"Emanuel Xavier possesses a strong and original voice . . . Each poem, a force unto itself, grabs the reader with its pointed intensity and demands both undivided attention and unambiguous respect. The poet, though thoughtful and self-reflective at times, is absolutely unregretting and unapologetic throughout."
- Ashe Journal
"Xavier got his start shouting his work from New York's uninhibited poetry-slam stages, where anarchy fueled brilliance as much as excess muffled achievement. In Americano, he brings a more modulated voice to the printed page - though the urgency, energy, unsentimental personal honesty, and unabashed sexual imagery of his performances are still present . . . With this collection, an accomplished combination of the sensual and the analytic, he proclaims that America is his nation, too."
- Book Marks
Additional Reviews: Clean Sheets Ashe ReviewQ Online Review
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 CHRIST-LIKE
A NOVEL by Emanuel Xavier
" . . . Xavier demonstrates the literary splendor and heroic telling of Piri Thomas and Junot Diaz . . . Like the people that it represents, Christlike is full of wit, charm, attitude and resilience... This is the story of how a rock can turn itself into a gem; this is the beginning of a great American author."
- Lambda Book Report
"Absolutely captivating and beautifully written."
- QV Magazine
"In the dark tradition of Jean Genet and John Rechy."
- Between the Lines
"Realistic and refreshing, Xavier's characters are flawed and feigning, and capable of making the reader both fear them and feel for them simultaneously."
- Book Marks
"Xavier's tale recalls the energy and fetid glamour of Andrew Holleran . . . in Dancer from the Dance . . ."
- Washington Blade
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 PIER QUEEN
POEMS by Emanuel Xavier
Featuring the poems "Tradiciones" and "Nueva York" as seen on Russell Simmons presents Def Poetry.
"Once in a generation, a new voice emerges that makes us see the world in a dazzling new light. Emanuel Xavier is that kind of writer . . . exciting . . . vibrant . . . unique . . . a visionary bard."
- Jaime Manrique, author of Latin Moon in Manhattan
" . . . a wrinkled yet sentimental world perilously eroding like the piers themselves where Emanuel created himself . . . loud and daring . . .extreme and exuberant."
- Keith Roach
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OTHER BOOKS FEATURING EMANUEL XAVIER:
THE LOVE THAT DARE NOT SPEAK ITS NAME
BAD BOYS
VIRGINS, GUERRILLAS & LOCAS
MEN ON MEN 7
OF THE FLESH
BEST OF BEST GAY EROTICA
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