ME NO HABLA WITH ACENTO edited by Emanuel Xavier This anthology of contemporary Latino poetry celebrates the rich mosaic of a major arts movement within the United States featuring poets and spoken word artists from across the country. Pages are filled with English, Spanglish, and even Spanish, but the unifying theme throughout this uncompromising book is the great oral tradition and diversity of a community that has significantly contributed to American culture beyond bookstores and cafes. The inspiring and powerful voices captured in this collection include: Edwin Torres, Rigoberto Gonzalez, Maria Rodriguez-Morales, Erik "Advocate of Wordz" Maldonado, Bonafide Rojas, Luzma Umpierre, Paul S. Flores, Roberto "Simply Rob" Vassilarakis, Caridad de la Luz "La Bruja", Nancy Mercado, Urayoan Noel, Chris "Chilo" Cajigas, Latasha N. Nevada Diggs, Roberto F. Santiago, Frank Perez, Sheila Maldonado, John "Chance" Acevedo, Machete Movement, Lisa Alvarado, A. B. Lugo, Jason "Majestik Originality" Hernandez, Myrna Nieves, Tito Luna, and Carlos Andres Gomez. Also includes B&W artwork by Juan Betancurth and a foreword by Gonzalo Casals, Director of Education and Public Programs for El Museo del Barrio. Published in association with El Museo del Barrio. PURCHASE NOW   IF JESUS WERE GAY & other poems                                                                          by Emanuel Xavier Emanuel Xavier’s If Jesus Were Gay & other poems pulls no punches and is brutally frank about his views on sexuality, politics, and religion.  Yet as deeply personal as these poems are, they are universal enough to move any reader.  Both sacred and profane, it is a compelling and confessional collection from a daring and ambitious voice in contemporary poetry.        “Love, sadness, lust and reverie…every poem in If Jesus Were Gay & other poems engages with a haunting tenderness that never abates.  Xavier delivers a masterful, enduring work.” -Steven G. Fullwood, The Magician’s Assistant’s Dilemma   “’Death comes like wind sudden and unexpected’ . . . The poems in If Jesus Were Gay & other poems, inform, instruct, rouse revolution, and liberate.  In these poems, I have found family, cleansed my heart, and let the tears flow.  Heartfelt!  Rousing!  Necessary!”  -Cheryl Boyce-Taylor, poet and author of Convincing the Body   “Emanuel Xavier's extraordinary If Jesus Were Gay & other poems is a fevered communion of spirit, sex, and heart.  These poems' hot, fierce honesty burst the thermometer with their unflinching open-eyed embrace of being human.  Buckle up!  These are his queer embodied poetics you eat.  This is his love-bursting blood you drink.  What would Jesus do?  He would read this book!” -Tim Miller, performer and author of Body Blows and 1001 Beds   "Emanuel Xavier is a super fierce pier queen and poet who effortlessly turns his experience into literary emissions of pride and passion." - Michael Musto, Village Voice columnist and author of Fork on the Left, Knife in the Back   “Xavier is both a hopeless romantic and an utter realist, a man who has experienced the worst that life can throw at you and yet has somehow retained the heart of a child and the soul of a truly good and compassionate human being.  His life and his work are a testament to the invincibility and strength of the human spirit.” -Trebor Healey, author of A Perfect Scar and other stories   "He moved me with his profanity and uplifted me with his sanctity.  What overrides everything, however, is Xavier's originality and ambition.  He has dared to put on paper that which burns within." -Amos Lassen   "Young men these days are asking what it was like in the Good Old (70s) Days.  Xavier’s "Letter to Rodney" captured not only a lot of the details I remember of that time, but more important is his comfort with his sexual appetite that pervaded our days of endless rainbows." -Chuck Forester, Lambda Literary    "Like the universality of the poetry that first moved him, Xavier’s is straightforward, visceral, and accessible. Whether he’s admonishing the funeral-protesting Fred Phelps in “Children of Magdalene” (“our angels have wings too”) or prophetically exploring the legitimacy of national identity in “Americano” (“I am as American as lemon merengue pie”), his poems address contemporary issues of race, religion, and politics with a voice that speaks for all those who have ever felt marginalized." -Dean Wrzeszcz, Gay City News   "The titular piece, a riotous litany of speculations on how the alternate sexuality of the savior would affect America's practicing Christians, elicits knowing laughter from audiences . . . Poetry has a relatively small but fervent audience, and the work of Emanuel Xavier might just convert the nonbelievers." -Jerome Murphy, NEXT Magazine   "Simultaneously flirtatious and sincere, Emanuel Xavier has managed to capture the mixed emotion of adopting a new disposition in life–the moment every gay man must contend with when he looks back one last time before moving on. If Jesus Were Gay, a book of fierce poetry, is the ultimate communion between a hell of a past and the heavenly relief at the prospect of a better future." -Rigoberto Gonzalez, Lambda Literary   PURCHASE NOW  Legendary- The Spoken Word Poetry of Emanuel Xavier Rather than the traditional "selected poems of" collection, gay Latino poet Emanuel Xavier's spoken word/music CD, Legendary- The Spoken Word Poetry of Emanuel Xavier, highlights 18 of his most notable poems featuring percussions and drums and set to latin jazz, salsa, hip hop, and house music.  Musicians featured include El David, Juan Cartagena, Luis Perez, Dr. Drum, Carlos Cartagena. Tracks include:  Bushwick Bohemia, Every Latino, Deliverance, Nueva York, Oya/St. Therese, Tradiciones, Wars & Rumors of Wars, It Rained The Day They Buried Tito Puente, Children of Magdalene, Americano, Papi Chulo, Latin Girl, Outside, Clean, Legendary, A Simple Poem, The Death of Art, Songs of Innocence, Legendary (The E-Mix)   “Emanuel’s poetic tones inform the listener of the struggles one takes when attempting to create beauty out of decades of decay.  It is obvious he has studied past voices and thus been able to craft a unique sense of phrasing which is a synthesis of masterful wordplay and a deep sense of musicality.” -Reg E. Gaines, Bring In Da Noise, Bring In Da Funk    PURCHASE NOW  Legendary (The E-Mix) by Emanuel Xavier, Produced by El David Based on the poem, "Legendary" by Emanuel Xavier, this "E-mix" is a genuine tribute to the ballroom/voguing/House community from which he eveolved to become one of the most significant Nuyorican poets of our time. PURCHASE NOW

Christ Like: tenth anniversary revised edition by Emanuel Xavier “Christ Like is the harrowing first novel by Emanuel Xavier. When it was first published ten years ago, it announced the arrival of a unique and important new voice among both gay and Latino/a writers. Ten years later, the novel retains its compelling power as it takes the reader on a jagged journey though the New York club scene; in theme and naked urgency, it may be justly compared to Dancer from the Dance and Last Exit to Brooklyn, but its heartbeat is puro latino.” —Michael Nava, author of The Little Death and Rag and Bone “With Christ Like, Xavier demonstrates the literary splendor and heroic telling of Piri Thomas (Down These Mean Streets), and Junot Diaz (Drown) . . . Like the people that it represents, Christ Like is full of wit, charm, attitude, and resilience. This ain’t no sad song. This is the story of how a rock can turn itself into a gem.” —Lambda Book Report “The emotional honesty of Emanuel Xavier’s writing grabs and holds you like a vice. For more than a decade, Xavier has been an essential voice for an urban, queer aesthetic that has much to teach the world about creativity, resilience, and unflinching love. In re-issuing this rare work, he has given us all a gift.” —Kai Wright, author of Drifting Toward love “An open hearted novel from the soul of New York City.  From the Valencia Bakery to Club Escuelita, a first generation American is forced to the edge by other people's prejudices.  There he finds love, hate, pleasure, and danger with a wide array of men whose lives are never recorded in American literature.  This novel will not come out of an MFA program or be optioned for HBO because of the censorship of experience in our current arts and entertainment industry.  But its story of people valued, thrown-away, losing, and surviving is central to understanding who we are and where we live.  All of us.”—Sarah Schulman   “By his own admission, there’s a lot of Emanuel Xavier in Mikey X, the fiercely self-destructive Puerto Rican club kid, survivor of horrific boyhood abuse, who poses, vogues, drugs and whores his way through the late ‘80s and early ‘90s of the gritty Manhattan gay Latino street scene. First published in 1999 and revised for this 10th-anniversary edition – “I have made it a bit more of a memoir, though it remains a work of fiction” – the book retains a jagged immediacy despite its chronological distance from the author’s younger experiences. The story’s setting is atmospheric and realistically raw, but there’s a softer side, too, as Mikey struggles to escape a numbing cycle of sex and drugs, finally finding redemption through engagement with a spirituality that’s the antithesis of his Catholic upbringing. As with Andrew Holleran’s Dancer from the Dance – the moneyed, white flip side of Xavier’s street-level demimonde decadence – the novel has evolved since its first publication into a seminal record of a particular queer culture’s era.” -Book Marks PURCHASE NOW  Mariposas: A Modern Anthology of Queer Latino Poetry Edited by Emanuel Xavier "As much a political act as poetry anthology, this passionate and truth-filled collection might at first seem to appeal more to fans of Spoken Word poetry. However, everyone interested in broadening their understanding of the diversity of the gay and lesbian community would do well to read Mariposas as well."                                                                              —Lambda Book Report                                                                                                                                “The 17 writers collected in Xavier's dynamic anthology of contemporary Latino poets make up a real mosaic. Some are American-born, others hail from Argentina, Mexico, and Puerto Rico. Their poems are in English, in Spanish, even in "Spanglish"; some are bilingual, and a few Spanish-language poems also appear in English, translated by Xavier - a vibrant diversity connected by mutual queerness and common themes. One such theme is sexual desire: "Why, my God, do I like men so much?" Daniel Torres wonders, and "Suddenly, our sex lives were full of safety drills," Rane Arroyo laments. Another is defiant anger: "There are not enough hate crimes/ to kill us all," Yosimar Reyes declares in memory of murdered queens, and "You call me wet back/ Yes my back is wet/ Wet of sweat/ Wet of blood," Xuan Carlos Espinoza-Cuellar cries in the face of immigrant-bashing. Xavier is a generous editor: instead of compiling a "greatest hits" sampler of one or two poems by many poets, he has opted to limit the number of contributors, giving each a real showcase for his talent.” -Book Marks   PURCHASE NOW    Best Gay Erotica 2008 Selected and introduced by Emanuel Xavier PURCHASE NOW

Bullets & Butterflies: queer spoken word poetry 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 "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 PURCHASE NOW

Americano 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." - The Weekly News "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 SheetsAshe ReviewQ Online Review PURCHASE NOW

Pier Queen  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 PURCHASE NOW

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