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Raymond Luczak

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Raymond Luczak is the author and editor of over 30 books, including the poetry collections ChlorophyllLunafly, and Far from Atlantisonce upon a twin was selected as a Top Ten U.P. Notable Book of the Year for 2021. His prose titles include A Quiet Foghorn: More Notes from a Deaf Gay Life and the award-winning Deaf gay novel Men with Their Hands. His most recent anthologies as editor are Yooper Poetry: On Experiencing Michigan’s Upper Peninsula and Oh Yeah: A Bear Poetry Anthology. A proud Yooper native and an inaugural Zoeglossia Poetry Fellow, he lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

This gorgeous collection is a testament to the power of poetry, transcending barriers and fostering understanding between worlds.

Ellen Lord, Author of Relative Sanity: Poems

[Luczak's] genius, though, is to evoke ... the infinite languages of creation, through which every living being, including each of us, contributes to nature’s conversation.

Jonathan Johnson, Author of May Is an Island

... a beautiful ballet between the creative properties of related languages.

Eric Thomas Norris, Author of Astronomy for Beginners

... a feat of leaping language, a delightful and surprising conversation between English and the American Sign Language gloss that Luczak has created ...

Ching-In Chen, Author of recombinant