Nate Lippens - My Dead Book Poetry The home is where our

The home is where our hopes and dreams play out

In my book The Besieged City I speak indirectly about the mystery of the thing

Edward Said’s project to ‘bring Palestine into history’ was unquestionably a success – there is no longer a question of whether Palestine had a history before colonization – and yet Palestinian self-determination is as distant as ever

languages and their topographical contexts

Nate Lippens - My Dead Book Poetry The home is where ourMy 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.