Yes, this is me, recovering from another one of those meltdowns, gang.

Loyal readers of this lofty blog are no doubt well-versed in my various leaps into madness now & then. Sometimes it manifests as depression. Sometimes as something entirely volatile and brain-shattering. This time it was the latter. Oh well. Onward. I have the very dearest comrades on Earth, as well as the most supportive life-mate you can imagine. And I had some unbelievable dreams last night. In one of them, I was on this really expansive NYC subway car and I ran into Robert Redford and he was like a really dear, long-lost best friend of mine! I hugged him like he meant everything in the world to me. He was wearing a beautiful dark blue cashmere coat. (I met him once in NYC in the late 80s and I am a lot taller than he is, which held true in my dream, as well.) But all the dreams last night made me unbelievably happy. So I'm back up in the saddle and I'm back to sauntering along the Reality Trail. yay.

From the Evene newsletter from Paris today, some MP3 downloads from the upcoming CocoRosie CD, Grey Oceans. You can listen to 5 of the songs here . They are so haunting and ethereal.

News from Emanuel Xavier in NYC: A new book of poems is out now:

IF JESUS WERE GAY & other poems

Emanuel Xavier

9781608640324

$14.95 US

 

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.

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, CNN, and his work has appeared in The Harvard Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide.  A spoken word/music compilation CD, Legendary- The Spoken Word Poetry of Emanuel Xavier, is available on iTunes.  He lives in New York City and curates a spoken word poetry series at El Museo del Barrio.

“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 

You can buy it here!