If Jesus Were Gay & other poems
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| Rating | : | 4.96 (751 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1608640329 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 154 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-11-08 |
| Language | : | English |
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Sacred, profane and refreshingly queer Both sacred and profane, "If Jesus Were Gay and Other Poems" by Emanuel Xavier is a new book that expresses Christ in a refreshingly queer way.Xavier makes sweet poetry out of his experiences as a gay Latino whose painful past includes sexual abuse at age 3 and rejection by his Catholic mother for being gay at age 16, leading to homelessness, drug dealing, prostitution -- and at last to poetry. His background is Puerto Rican and Ecuadorian, and his poems are sprinkled with Spanish.The title poem "If Jesus were Gay" questions whether people would still love and
This is his love-bursting blood you drink. These poems hot, fierce honesty burst the thermometer with their unflinching open-eyed embrace of being human. Heartfelt! Rousing! Necessary! --Cheryl Boyce-Taylor, poet and author of Convincing the BodyEmanuel Xavier s extraordinary If Jesus Were Gay & other poems is a fevered communion of spirit, sex, and heart. Death comes like wind sudden and unexpected The poems in If Jesus Were Gay & other poems, inform, instruct, rouse revolution, and liberate. Buckle up! These are his queer embodied poetics you eat. What would Jesus do? He would read this book! --Tim Miller, performer and author of Body Blows and 1001 BedsLove, sadness, lust and reverie, every poem in If Jesus Were Gay & other poems engages with a haunting tenderness that never abates. --Steven G. Xavier delivers a masterful, enduring work. In these poems, I have found family, c
Both sacred and profane, it is a compelling and confessional collection from a daring and ambitious voice in contemporary poetry.. 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
EMANUEL XAVIER is author of the novel, Christ Like, and editor of the anthologies Bullets & Butterflies: queer spoken word poetry and Mariposas: A Modern Anthology of Queer Latino Poetry. He has been featured on Russell Simmons presents Def Poetry, The New York Times, C