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ID: The book cover shows a wall sculpture in the shape of a Manhattan-like island with gear wheels painted in mostly gold and copper arranged in a chaotic pattern all connected with aluminum chains around a deep brown gear wheel that is not connected to any wheel or chain. The sculpture’s background print shows many gear wheels clashing and merging with each other in white against a clay color. The cover’s background is solid black with the text in white and rust below the sculpture: I’LL TELL YOU LATER | Deaf Survivors of Dinner Table Syndrome | Raymond Luczak, Editor.

I’ll Tell You Later

“I’ll tell you later.”

The most damaging promise a hearing family member can make to a Deaf person.

For centuries, Deaf people were expected to sit quietly at the table when their hearing families shared a meal. Some might have asked the person sitting nearby, “What are they saying?” The usual response? “I’ll tell you later.” When the meal is done, the Deaf person would naturally follow up: “What did they say?” The usual response? “I’m sorry I forgot.” Only recently was this transgression was given a name: Dinner Table Syndrome.

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The top half of the cover is a warm orange-ish brown color with a pair of thick bright green horizontal stripes. Between these stripes is a goldenrod-color circle featuring an excerpted quote “a magical book that works its spell in musical silence.” Eric Thomas Norris. Below the circle is the title in white and goldenrod colors: Animals Out-There W-i-l-d, and the subtitle in small white caps: A Bestiary in English and ASL gloss. The bottom half of the cover has a solid goldenrod-color background with a partial excerpt of a poem in both English wrapped around the spine on the left side and ASL gloss on the right side. Below the excerpted poem is the phrase in a warm orange-is brown color: Unbound Edition Press.

Animals Out-There W-i-l-d

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.

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I'LL TELL YOU LATER: Deaf Survivors of Dinner Table Syndrome (trailer)

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“…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“
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The Author

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.

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