New Roses is a work of experimental prose that explores the relationships between madness and addiction, consciousness and language. Written by an anonymous drug-addled paranoid schizophrenic, New Roses offers a window into the shattered mind of a young man doomed to a lifetime of persecution. This book is his statement, as he writes to investigate the existential questions of meaning, life, and death. Honoring his friend's will, Stephen O. Rak has accepted the author's request to be the sole representative of the published text of New Roses.