Flannelwood by RaymondLuczak Paperback, 200 Pages, Published 2019 by Red Hen Press ISBN-13: 978-1-59709-897-7, ISBN: 1-59709-897-3
"Spontaneous combustion occurs when Bill, a forty-year-old barista and a failed poet, meets James, a disabled factory worker and a daddy hunk, at an OctoBear Dance. For six months they share weekends of incredible passion at James’s house up north in the country. Winter has never seemed hotter in their flannel sheets. But on the first day of spring James abruptly informs Bill over the phone that it’s not going to work out and hangs up. N ..."
QDA A Queer Disability Anthology by RaymondLuczak Paperback, 376 Pages, Published 2015 by Squares & Rebels ISBN-13: 978-1-941960-02-8, ISBN: 1-941960-02-2
"Featuring fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and comics by 48 writers from around the world, QDA: A Queer Disability Anthology proves that intersectionality isn't just a buzzword. It's a penetrating and unforgettable look into the hearts and souls of those defiant enough to explore their own vulnerabilities and demonstrate their own strengths. Here is a gathering of people with the transformative-and political-power of love that transcends g ..."
Assembly Required Notes from a Deaf Gay Life (Updated) by RaymondLuczak Paperback, 122 Pages, Published 2019 by Handtype Press ISBN-13: 978-1-941960-12-7, ISBN: 1-941960-12-X
"No one gives you a manual on how to be a Deaf gay man. Raymond Luczak shares stories from his days growing up as a Deaf gay man in Michigan's Upper Peninsula and learning signs in secret, trying to follow music on the radio in order to be cool like his hearing classmates, and feeling clueless whenever gay cultural icons like the Village People, Queen, and Bette Midler were promoted in his small hometown. After he graduated from high sc ..."
"In The Kiss of Walt Whitman Still on My Lips, Raymond Luczak recounts his unrequited love for a gardener while examining how Walt Whitman (1819-1892) lived as a gay man 150 years before. Inspired by the earthy passions abundant in Whitman's work and the vast social changes between his era and ours, the story becomes an urgent love letter in more ways than one. "The Kiss of Walt Whitman Still on My Lips is an unabashed celebration of on ..."
From Heart into Art Interviews with Deaf and Hard of Hearing Artists and Their Allies by RaymondLuczak Paperback, 210 Pages, Published 2014 by Handtype Press ISBN-13: 978-1-941960-01-1, ISBN: 1-941960-01-4
"For over a decade, Raymond Luczak, author of Silence Is a Four-Letter Word: On Art & Deafness, has been interviewing Deaf and hard of hearing artists and their allies about their creative and arts accessibility work. This volume features over 70 people sharing what it means to be an artist who happens to be different. "When I was little, I never really quite questioned all those millions of sound norms I'd inhabited." -Christine Sun Kim ..."
Compassion, Michigan the Ironwood Stories by RaymondLuczak Paperback, 200 Pages, Published 2020 by Modern History Press ISBN-13: 978-1-61599-527-1, ISBN: 1-61599-527-7
"He lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota. "These are stories of extremely real women, mostly disappointed by life, living meagerly in a depleted town in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Sound depressing? Not at all."
The Kinda Fella I Am Stories by RaymondLuczak Paperback, 156 Pages, Published 2018 by Independent Arts & Media ISBN-13: 978-1-947647-09-1, ISBN: 1-947647-09-1
" The Kinda Fella I Am continues Raymond Luczak's extraordinary string of outstanding books. Delving into our deep needs for human connection, Luczak imagines the world as seen by queer disabled men.The breadth of Raymond Luczak's writing leaves us dazzled. -- Michael Thomas Ford, author of Lily The Kinda Fella I Am takes us on a captivating dive into the lives of these disabled queers. We follow them from kitchen to bedoom, from cof ..."
once upon a twin - poems (Paperback) by RaymondLuczak Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 2021 by Gallaudet University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-944838-76-8, ISBN: 1-944838-76-7
"As an elegy to his lost twin, this book asks: If he had a twin, just how different would his life have been?"
The Last Deaf Club in America (Paperback) by RaymondLuczak Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 2018 by Handtype Press, United States ISBN-13: 978-1-941960-09-7, ISBN: 1-941960-09-X
"A few ghosts return to share stories of what it was like when Deaf clubs truly mattered. Raymond Luczak offers a compelling look into the Deaf community then and now."
Silence Is a Four-Letter Word On Art & Deafness (The Tenth Anniversary Edition) by RaymondLuczak Paperback, 162 Pages, Published 2012 by Handtype Press ISBN-13: 978-0-9798816-3-3, ISBN: 0-9798816-3-3
"In 2002, Raymond Luczak handed us his call to arms for deaf artists everywhere. Ten years later, he revisits the book that challenged assumptions about being an artist. Has anything changed? Yes and no. Luczak's meditations on what makes art "art" and deafness "deaf" asks artists everywhere to rethink their work and live differently. This tenth anniversary edition incorporates new observations made over the past decade. "Written in the ..."
Mute(1st Edition) (Body Language) by RaymondLuczak Paperback, 64 Pages, Published 2010 by A Midsummer Night's Press ISBN-13: 978-0-9794208-6-3, ISBN: 0-9794208-6-5
"Poetry. LGBT Studies. Silence is always a powerful statement, but even more so in the hands of Raymond Luczak, who demonstrates in his third collection what it's like to navigate between the warring languages of confusion and clarity. As a deaf gay man in the hearing world, he lends an unforgettable voice to his reality of ache and loss beyond the inadequate translation of sound."
St. Michael's Fall by RaymondLuczak Paperback, 86 Pages, Published 1995 by Deaf Life Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-9634016-8-7, ISBN: 0-9634016-8-8
"In Among the Leaves, 18 queer male poets share stories what it means to live in the Midwest. We learn what it's like for them to play football and come up short. We feel their lingering effects of bullying. We experience the undeniable power of seasons affecting their moods as they ache for a meaningful connection. We learn what it means to celebrate in spite of the odds against them. But more than anything, we discover anew through the ..."
Eyes Of Desire(1st Edition) A Deaf Gay & Lesbian Reader by RaymondLuczak Paperback, 314 Pages, Published 1993 by Alyson Books ISBN-13: 978-1-55583-204-9, ISBN: 1-55583-204-0
"In a collection of essays, deaf lesbians and gay men discuss their lives, describing how they discovered their sexual identity, overcame barriers to communication in a hearing world, and created a deaf gay and lesbian culture. Original."
"From haunted Civil War battlefields to a severed ear discovered on a nightly run; from lab-grown dinosaurs to forest creatures that steal away children under the cover of night; from deadly bio-engineered fleas to a burning teenage desire for cybernetic amputations: Deaf and hard of hearing authors from around the world bring you this fun, though oftentimes disturbing, collection of short fiction."So often the future we imagine is homog ..."
How to Kill Poetry by RaymondLuczak Paperback, 122 Pages, Published 2013 by Sibling Rivalry Press, Llc ISBN-13: 978-1-937420-29-1, ISBN: 1-937420-29-9
"With the ghosts of Emily Dickinson, Arthur Rimbaud, Sappho, and Walt Whitman leading the way, How to Kill Poetry showcases a highly selective overview of Western civilization poetic development from its oral traditions to the silence of pixels. The narrative then jumps 200 years into the future where the unfortunate consequences of global warming create a dramatic backdrop against which poetry--if it is to have any redeeming value--must ..."
This Way to the Acorns Poems by RaymondLuczak Paperback, 90 Pages, Published 2012 by Handtype Press ISBN-13: 978-0-9798816-2-6, ISBN: 0-9798816-2-5
"As a boy growing up in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, Raymond Luczak delighted in the mysterious attractions of nature in a huge expanse of abandoned woods and fields known as "across the street." In This Way to the Acorns, he remembers encountering unexpected guests of the woods: a scraggly fox, a starving doe, an industrious chipmunk, all enveloped against the backdrop of nature. If he remembers the first shimmers of spring, he does not ..."
Road Work Ahead by RaymondLuczak Paperback, 92 Pages, Published 2011 by Sibling Rivalry Press ISBN-13: 978-0-578-07158-9, ISBN: 0-578-07158-4
"Poetry. LGBT Studies. In the follow-up to his critically acclaimed collection MUTE, Raymond Luczak sets out on a turbulent journey after ending a 15-year relationship. The poems of ROAD WORK AHEAD follow Luczak as he meets kindred souls on his travels and wonders what it means to love again. He opens the suitcase of his heart in far-flung cities and points beyond. His poems, pungent with musk and ache, will open yours too."
Assembly Required Notes from a Deaf Gay Life by RaymondLuczak Paperback, 143 Pages, Published 2009 by Rid Press ISBN-13: 978-0-916883-49-2, ISBN: 0-916883-49-3
Silence Is a Four-Letter Word On Art and Deafness by RaymondLuczak Paperback, 201 Pages, Published 2002 by Tractarian Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-9719248-0-2, ISBN: 0-9719248-0-5