El trabajo de Emanuel Xavier es de los más que me ha impresionado. Ví por primera vez su "performance" en el "Community Gay and Lesbian Center" en Manhattan. Aúnque ya había leído algo de él, verlo actuar su poesía es otra cosa. Su trabajo es como esos golpes que no ves venir hasta que de momento te encuentras en el piso y te das cuenta de que te han dado duro, te han tumbado y todavia te estan golpeando. Este joven artista "performa" su poesía acompañado de algún tambor o música. Emanuel ha sido tan generoso que me ha dado el honor de poder compartir algunos de sus trabajos poéticos en la gay page, para poder compartirla con todos ustedes.
Lost
in the translation |
| Bring me a white boy who swears he is latino & I will make him eat pasteles bacalao carne guisada con yucca y tostones sew his ass cheeks together force feed him maltas batidos de papaya con leche de Carnation (of course) watching his belly explode into a million fatherless babies poverty crushed dreams and overcrowded ghettos where police sirens nurse the children to sleep
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Deliverance
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| Padre, perdoname but where were you when I was 3 getting fucked up the ass by my oldest cousin Palabras reminding me IF YOUR MAMI FINDS OUT, SHE'LL LEAVE YOU LIKE YOUR DADDY DID! ...like your daddy did ...like daddy did leaving behind a curious child kicking preschool teachers in the crotch smashing up aquariums watching enviously pretty little goldfish struggling desperately for air dying slowly helplessly like myself Padre, perdoname Padre, perdoname but real men never cry Padre, perdoname |
Pier Queen Radio Blues |
| Flying high bove the
Hudson River the tranquility tingly, cristal like sensations as Heaven's Gates appear through big, fluffy clouds hello...you are on the air- St. Peter...was goin' on g-i-r-r-r-l? My name is Terence LaBeija-Xtravaganza-Dupri you would W-A-N-T to have me on the guest-list! Hello you are on the air- My face is cracked standing alone in the vast desert motorcycles speeding by the faucets 'drip-drip' dripping feeding my anxiety as the end approaches Hello... I KNOW ALREADY, I AM ON THE FUCKING AIR! GOD IS LOVE, LOVE IS GOD- WHATEVER! I'VE NEVER BEEN PAST CHRISTOPHER! Mama swallowed a bullet back at the piers I learned that there is beauty in darkness but more beauty in sound Hello...you are on the air- If I were to travel through your subconscious, would you wait for me? WILL YOU WAIT FOR ME? Hello...you are on the air- BACK UP BITCH! If I were to... St. Peter... speeding by... I AM ON THE GUEST LIST! I SWEAR! Hello...you are on the air- |
| Datos biográficos de Emanuel
Xavier, demás está decir que compré su libro Pier Queen y lo
recomiendo SIN REPAROS. El libro
lo conseguí en "A different Light Bookstore",
en NY, puedes comprarlo a través del catálogo. Emanuel Xavier is a twenty-six-year-old poet/writer whose first poetry collection, Pier Queen (self-published by Pier Queen Productions), reflects his experiences growing up gay and latino in the suburbs of Brooklyn and raised by the many houses of New York's legendary West Side Highway piers a la "Paris is Burning". "Bushwick Bohemia", is the lead-off poem which clearly depicts the environment he comes from and takes you through a cathartic journey toward "Deliverance"; the emotional struggle of a victim of sexual abuse, "Chelsea Queen"; raw, unmistakably defiant and "Tradici6nes,,; reverberating the ultimate message of breaking traditions, letting go of the past and looking forward to a positive future. Emanuel Xavier's work has been published in Best Gay Erotica 1997 (edited by Richard Labont6 for Cleis Press), Urban the Latino Magazine, phatiltude Literary Magazine and Ma-Ka: Diasporic Juks- Contemporary Writings by Queers of African Descent. Emanuel Xavier started off reading poetry at open mic's for Bibliols and Surf Reality before studying with Nuyorican Poets Cafe Grand Slam Champion Regie Cabico. He has since performed at venues as diverse as: A Different Light Bookstore, Jefferson Street Market Library, the American Crafts Museum, Giovanni's Room, Borders Bookstore, the Gershwin Hotel, the Lesbian and Gay Community Center, Dixon Place, the Bronx Cloisters, Meow Mix, Jackie 60, New School for Social Research, Baruch College, Columbia University and the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, where he became a Grand Slam winner himself. "Xavier flares disappointment like a challenge dance ... says Laurie Stone of the Village Voice. Chris Hayes of NEXT Magazine describes him as the "...fly-boy poet ... extraordinare"Fthat 11 ... rocks!" and Mandate Magazine calls Pier Queen a "well-crafted and provocative ... impressive debut ... " Emanuel Xavier currently runs a monthly series featuring gay and lesbian poets of color at A Different Light Bookstore. Pier Queen is available from Koen Book Distributers (606-235-4444) in the East Coast and Alamo Square Distributors (415-863-7410) in the West Coast. For more information, you can write to: Emanuel Xavier or leave a brief verbal message at (917) 223-0652. |
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