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Footnote #2
A Literary Journal of History
by Alternating Current, Leah Angstman, Holly M. Wendt, Mary Buchinger, Raymond Luczak, Cynthia Anderson, Garrett J. Brown, Charles Bane Jr., John Paul Davies, Tyler Gillespie, Alan Catlin, Gary Every, Emily Kiernan, Tricia Knoll, Llanwyre Laish, Alexis Larkin, Phillip Larrea, Yasmin Khan Murgai, Gennarose Nethercott, Jennifer Roche, Francine Rubin, Jon Sindell, John Vicary, Rodney Wilhite
Paperback, 136 Pages, Published 2019 by Alternating Current
ISBN-13: 978-1-946580-04-7, ISBN: 1-946580-04-X

"The second issue of Alternating Current Press’ annual literary publication dedicated to past and contemporary views on history contains poetry, maps, photographs, fiction, essays, articles, and nonfiction by various authors about various historical topics. Within these pages, you will find contemporary outlooks on history right alongside little-known historical works that feel as fresh and as vibrant (and as scary) as if they were writt ..."






once upon a twin - poems
(Paperback)
by Raymond Luczak
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?"






Flannelwood
by Raymond Luczak
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 ..."






Assembly Required
Notes from a Deaf Gay Life (Updated)
by Raymond Luczak
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 ..."






A Babble of Objects
by Raymond Luczak
Paperback, 114 Pages, Published 2018 by Fomite
ISBN-13: 978-1-944388-59-1, ISBN: 1-944388-59-1

"If objects could talk, what sort of things would they say? Through a rapid-series of short poems Raymond Luczak, author of seven acclaimed poetry collections such as Mute (A Midsummer Night’s Press) and The Kiss of Walt Whitman Still on My Lips (Squares & Rebels), imagines the inner lives of inanimate objects. We learn what it’s like to be a dressing room mirror, a bobby pin, a discarded mattress, a stapler, a credit card, a hearing aid ..."






The Last Deaf Club in America
(Paperback)
by Raymond Luczak
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."






The Kinda Fella I Am
Stories
by Raymond Luczak
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 ..."






Tripping the Tale Fantastic
Weird Fiction by Deaf and Hard of Hearing Writers
by Raymond Luczak, Christopher Jon Heuer, David Langford
Paperback, 198 Pages, Published 2017 by Handtype Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-941960-08-0, ISBN: 1-941960-08-1

"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 ..."






The Kiss of Walt Whitman Still on My Lips
by Raymond Luczak
Paperback, 106 Pages, Published 2016 by Squares & Rebels
ISBN-13: 978-1-941960-03-5, ISBN: 1-941960-03-0

"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 Raymond Luczak
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 ..."






How to Kill Poetry
by Raymond Luczak
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 ..."






The Way North
Collected Upper Peninsula New Works (Made in Michigan Writers Series)
by Ron Riekkie, Amber Edmondson, Marty Achatz, Andrea Scarpino, Ellen Airgood, Janice Repka, Jonathan Johnson, Barbara Henning, Austin Hummell, April Lindala, Jennifer Burd, Eric Gadzinski, Manda Frederick, Chad Faries, Randall R. Freisinger, Beverly Matherne, Cameron Witbeck, Linda Johnson, Mary Mcmyne, Jim Zukowski, Jane Piirto, Keith Taylor, Matt Maki, Janeen Rastall, Catie Rosemurgy, John Smolens, Robert Alexander, Sally Brunk, Sharon Dilworth, Steve Hamilton, Sue Harrison, Julie Brooks Barbour, Lisa Fay Coutley, Matthew Gavin Frank, Ron Johnson, Joseph Daniel Haske, Jennifer A. Howard, L. E. Kimball, Raymond Luczak, Seth Marlin, Saara Myrene Raappana, Vincent Reusch, Emily Van Kley, R. A. Riekki, Michael Delp
Paperback, 280 Pages, Published 2013 by Wayne State University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8143-3865-0, ISBN: 0-8143-3865-8

"Michigan's Upper Peninsula is distinct from the rest of the state in geography, climate, and culture, including a unique and thriving creative writing community. In The Way North: Collected Upper Peninsula New Works, editor Ron Riekki presents poetry, fiction, and non-fiction from memorable, varied voices that are writing from and about Michigan's Upper Peninsula. In all, this unique anthology features new works from forty-two writers, ..."






This Way to the Acorns
Poems
by Raymond Luczak
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 ..."






Silence Is a Four-Letter Word
On Art & Deafness (The Tenth Anniversary Edition)
by Raymond Luczak
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 ..."






Road Work Ahead
by Raymond Luczak
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."






Mute(1st Edition)
(Body Language)
by Raymond Luczak
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."






Assembly Required
Notes from a Deaf Gay Life
by Raymond Luczak
Paperback, 143 Pages, Published 2009 by Rid Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-916883-49-2, ISBN: 0-916883-49-3






Whispers of a Savage Sort(1st Edition)
And Other Plays about the Deaf American Experience
by Raymond Luczak
Paperback, 200 Pages, Published 2009 by Gallaudet University Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-56368-420-3, ISBN: 1-56368-420-9

"“Oh, why can’t the deaf community be more like a family?” is the plaint of a character in Raymond Luczak’s title play Whispers of a Savage Sort. It also goes far in characterizing the main thread that runs through his remarkable collection of work offered in this new volume. Whispers of a Savage Sort and Other Plays about the Deaf American Experience presents a progression of plays that depict Deaf people in situations well-known by the ..."






Men with Their Hands
by Raymond Luczak
Paperback, 270 Pages, Published 2009 by Queer Mojo
ISBN-13: 978-1-60864-024-9, ISBN: 1-60864-024-8

"Growing up different is never easy, but Michael, a deaf young man from a small town, knows that he must find his true family beyond his biological one. He struggles and fails to find others of his kind until he attends college in New York City. There, we meet a variety of people from a deaf gay family of sorts: Eddie, an older accountant aching for love; Lee, an effeminate dishwasher with a pronounced weakness for red-haired men; Vince, ..."






Men With Their Hands
by Raymond Luczak
Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2008 by Suspect Thoughts Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-9789023-6-0, ISBN: 0-9789023-6-X

"Told through a variety of voices from 1975 to 2002, a lonely young deaf man discovers his sexuality in a small town and eventually joins others of his kind-a new family who understands him-in New York City."



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