Nate Lippens - My Dead Book Poetry Then there’s Rosaleen

Then there’s Rosaleen

In a moment of struggle defined by the rollback of social welfare programs

The home is where our hopes and dreams play out

languages and their topographical contexts

these stories have never been bettered

Nate Lippens - My Dead Book Poetry Then there’s RosaleenMy Dead Book is a novel composed of nonlinear vignettes and fragments about a queer man approaching his fiftieth birthday who is haunted by insomnia and his past. In the dead of night, he remembers his friends who died in the late 1980s and 1990s, his years as a teenage throwaway and sex worker, and ruminates on working class survival, queer aging, AIDS, and whether he has outlived his place in the world.