In this groundbreaking collection of sign language gloss poetry, the first of its kind to be published, Raymond Luczak explores the dynamics of written English poetry and ASL gloss by communing with the animals living in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.
Sometimes the best way to learn about a unique region is to listen to the stories told by those who’ve actually lived there. You learn things that no guidebook would ever tell you. You meet…
In this anthology of Bear poetry, we go further than celebrating sex between men. We explore what it means to have our imperfect bodies rejected, accepted, and loved as we are: queer and trans men challenging and…
What if you felt you didn’t belong where you lived? In Far from Atlantis, Raymond Luczak tells stories of two vastly different worlds: the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, which often looks like an island on the…
“…Raymond Luczak again provides us with the life-sustaining exploration of Deaf and queer life that has characterized all his work…about the importance of connecting with others, pushing through loneliness and fear to the joy that comes from discovering and sustaining community.”
— Robert McRuer, author of Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability“
books | films | plays
RAYMOND LUCZAK (pronounced with a silent “c”) is perhaps best known for his books, films, and plays. He was raised in Ironwood, a small mining town in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Number seven in a family of nine children, he lost much of his hearing due to double pneumonia at the age of eight months. Read more about Raymond in his biography.
