Bullets & Butterflies: Queer Spoken Word Poetry - Softcover

Emanuel Xavier

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0974638854 ISBN 13: 9780974638850

Publisher: Suspect Thoughts Press, 2005

Synopsis

Emanuel Xavier has edited an extraordinary anthology collecting work from America's hottest queer spoken word performers and slam-poets. Queers have always been in the forefront of US poetry: Whitman, Stein, Hughes, Ginsberg. But it's at this curious hinge of twenty-first century NOW that poetry itself has found its way into the ear of public consciousness, so that we are finally hearing Whitman's varied carols tambourining. Many of the poets in this anthology are not generally known outside the Slam, Performance, and Hip Hop Poetry worlds, but here they are at last, spinning on dialectics political, gentrified, aesthetic. Bullets & Butterflies features vibrant, sexy, and shocking new poetry focused on sexuality, gender, class, race, religion, and politics by Cheryl Boyce-Taylor, Regie Cabico, Staceyann Chin, Celena Glenn, Daphne Gottlieb, Maurice Jamal, Shane Luitjens, Marty McConnell, Travis Montez, Alix Olson, Shailja Patel, horehound stillpoint, and Emanuel Xavier.

About this title

About the Author

The author of the novel, Christ Like, the poetry collections, Radiance, Nefarious, Pier Queen, Americano- Growing Up Gay And Latino in the USA and If Jesus Were Gay & other poems, and the spoken word/music collaboration album, Legendary- The Spoken Word Poetry of Emanuel Xavier, which inspired a choreographed dance presentation and a music video, Emanuel Xavier was named an LGBT History Month Icon by the Equality Forum, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to advance national and international gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) civil rights through education. 

Edition details

• Publisher: Suspect Thoughts Press
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0974638854
• ISBN 13: 9780974638850
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 216
• Editor: Emanuel Xavier