<em>The Nancy Reagan Collection</em></br>Maxe Crandall

The Nancy Reagan Collection is a response to growing up queer under the rise of HIV-AIDS. Crossing genres and generations, this performance novel remixes the AIDS archive through an ever-spiraling politics and aesthetics of mourning. Alternating chapters offer up a narrative throughline composed of hallucinogenic episodes from the perspective of a nameless, grieving protagonist in the midst of the global carnage of the Reagan dynasty. Part revenge, part fantasy, the book experiments with poetic practices that challenge conceptions of memory and morality, activism and escapism, grief and beauty. Fall 2020 184 pages, 6 × 8 inches  Paperback Poetry / Performance Novel 978-1733038416 $19 U.S.