Poetry.
LGBTQIA Studies.
OUR LADY OF PERPETUAL DEGENERACY asserts the possibilities for queer/trans sexualities and genders in Catholic saints.
These speakers navigate a world of mingling divine and mundane as saints leave their lives in heaven behind and haunt an earthly narrator.
Saints act here as figures between human and supernatural--bringing into question other binaries and structures like gender, memory, and family.
The collection searches for a new kind of communion of saints and a n.