Americano: Growing up Gay and Latino in the USA
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| Rating | : | 4.60 (631 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1608640744 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 80 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-08-16 |
| Language | : | English |
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Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, Emanuel Xavier is author of the novel, Christ Like, and the poetry collections If Jesus Were Gay & other poems and Pier Queen. He appeared twice on HBO's Russell Simmons presents Def Poetry and performs regularly throughout the country and around the world as a spoken word artist. . He edited the anthologies Mariposas: A Modern Anthology of Queer Latino Poetry and Me N
Xavier s imagery moves seamlessly from the morphological harshness of Catholicism the crucifixion, the stigmata, the thorns, the wounds of Christ to the Yoruba breezes of the Afro-Caribbean spirituality of the Orishas. The collection ends with the author looking forward to a hard-fought, almost positivist, evolution in Undone : I am not done writing yet/the future is in our words. --Eileen MylesUncompromising introspection intermixes with current romances. Dual threads of spirituality and religion thread through the work, the wa
Queen Regina said A Poet of the New Generation. Emanuel Xavier's writing is raw, inciteful, creative, realistic, energetic I could go on and on. Check out his appearances on Russel Simmons or go see him perform live.. "Wow" according to A Customer. Emanuel has captured the sometimes cold, sometimes dangerous world of growing up gay, poor, latino and in the ghetto. And from these experiences he has created some of the most powerfully charged poetry around. While reading Americano, I felt a wide range of emotions - I was sad. I was happy. I was angry. I was enlightened. But most of all I . Go, Emanuel! Emanuel Xavier is a force to be reckoned with. His poetry touches on (or in some cases charges full-force into) the themes of love, sex, Latino culture, religion, and patriotism. Americano is fantastic: the poems heartfelt, personal, brave, and passionate. And sexy. Poetry sexy? Yes, very sexy! Go, Emanuel!
In pursuit of the American dream, this is a tribute to freedom and equality from an insider looking out while enjoying a piece of both the apple and lemon merengue pie.. The poems contained in these pages challenge mainstream sexual, political and religious beliefs reflecting unique experiences from the outskirts of the heartland. Americano: Growing up Gay and Latino in the USA is a groundbreaking collection from one of the most provocative voices in modern American poetry