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Book cover for When I Am Dead: The Writings of George M. Teegarden featuring a white man in glasses

When I am Dead: The Writings of George M. Teegarden

In the top half of the image is a blue tinted image of a pair of hands signing in shadow. The title in white shows WHISPERS OF A SAVAGE SORT. Below it is a thin white stripe. Below the stripe is a fiery gradient of yellow to orange showing the subtitle and author's name in white: and Other Plays about the Deaf American Experience | RAYMOND LUCZAK.

Whispers of a Savage Sort and Other Plays about the Deaf American Experience

The cover shows two photographs: A panoramic shot of a gnarly tree in the foreground against a manicured lawn far into the distance; the black-and-white photograph is tinted in a light teal. Below it is a pair of young men closing their eyes and resting their heads against each other off the edge of a sofa. The wall to the right shows the title and author's name in white: MUTE | RAYMOND LUCZAK. Near the bottom of the image says A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S PRESS.

MUTE

The black-and-white shot shows a bearded man smiling quietly and directly at us. Below his face is the text in hot pink and white: NOTES OF A DEAF GAY WRITER | 20 years later | RAYMOND LUCZAK.

Notes of a Deaf Gay Writer: 20 Years Later

The black-and-white photograph shows a grassy road through a sparse forest. Above the road is a transparent square with a bright orange border tilted to the side. The text on top of the square says ROAD WORK AHEAD. Below the "sign" are the text in white and orange: poems | RAYMOND LUCZAK.

Road Work Ahead: Poems

A bright yellow flower against dark green leaves is repeated over and over again in ever smaller sizes so the frame becomes striped. Below is the text in black against a solid yellow background: SILENCE IS A FOUR-LETTER WORD | on art & deafness | RAYMOND LUCZAK | The Tenth Anniversary Edition.

Silence Is a Four-Letter Word: On Art & Deafness (The Tenth Anniversary Edition)

The watercolor painting shows a barren tree with almost a woman's figure against a white background. On the top and bottom is a green criss-cross woven pattern. On the left side of the bottom is a circle showing the text in purple THE TENTH ANNIVERSARY EDITION. On the right side of the bottom is a tall purple rectangle showing the text in white: This Way to the Acorns | poems | Raymond Luczak.

This Way to the Acorns: Poems (The Tenth Anniversary Edition)

A square-pattern showing leaves alternating between the greens of summer and the oranges of autumn arranged like a picture frame around a blank white rectangle listing the title AMONG THE LEAVES: queer male poets on the midwestern experience. Below it is a list of poets again alternating between green and orange as follows: walter beck | ahimsa timoteo bodhran | james cihlar | jack fritscher | brent goodman | george klawitter | christopher leland | john medeiros | stephen s. mills | michael kiesow moore | timothy murphy | william reichard | james schwartz | gregg shapiro | whittier strong | malcolmn stuhlmiller | scott wiggerman. Below the poets is the name in black RAYMOND LUCZAK, editor.

Among the Leaves: Queer Male Poets on the Midwestern Experience

Two horizontal images bisect the cover: On top is a garish desert scene showing just the head of a young white man glowing almost like a sun while an older bearded white man looks on. The middle white stripe shows the title HOW TO KILL POETRY in red. Below the white stripe is a black-and-white tranquil landscape with a white woman from late 1800s, tinted in red save for a white flower at her neck, sitting and looking directly at us.

How to Kill Poetry

The hazy (and mostly) black-and-white photograph shows a hand painting a hand that looks almost like outcroppings of rock against a sea of white text, which are actually names as a block of text. Below the picture is the text in dark red and white: FROM HEART INTO ART | Interviews with Deaf and Hard of Hearing Artists and Their Allies | RAYMOND LUCZAK.

From Heart To Art: Interviews with Deaf and Hard of Hearing Artists and Their Allies

A flower with hot pink petals and a bright yellow crown with a white center on top is wrapped to the left. On the upper right hand side are author's names set in small type. Below the flower is the title in white QDA | A Queer Disability Anthology | Raymond Luczak, Editor.

QDA: A Queer Disability Anthology

In a mostly sepia hue, a middle-aged man with a thick beard stands defiantly in a slovenly suit and holds a hat by his hip. He looks directly at us. Across his waist is transparent stripes of purple against which the text in white says THE KISS OF WALT WHITMAN STILL ON MY LIPS | Raymond Luczak. (The name WALT WHITMAN is handwritten.)

The Kiss of Walt Whitman Still on My Lips

Ten portraits featuring men of various appearances, styles, facial hair, and backgrounds are arranged around a black box showing the text in light gray: THE KINDA FELLA I AM | stories | RAYMOND LUCZAK.

The Kinda Fella I Am: Stories

Against a soft gray background, medium-sized red dots are arranged on a grid with the title A BABBLE OF OBJECTS in black, the subtitle POEMS in red, and the author's name RAYMOND LUCZAK in black.

A Babble of Objects: Poems

Book cover for The Last Deaf Club in America, with a black and white image of several people sitting around three tables looking at the camera

The Last Deaf Club in America

The mostly rust-colored cover shows the author's high school senior picture: He is clean-shaven, smiling with long hair swept to the side; his freckles have been airbrushed out. The title, subtitle, and author's name are arranged somewhat like a picture frame atop the picture: ASSEMBLY REQUIRED | Notes from a Deaf Gay Life (Updated) | RAYMOND LUCZAK.

Assembly Required: Notes from a Deaf Gay Life

Lovejets book cover, depicting a kaleidoscopic illustration

Lovejets: Queer Male Poets on 200 Years of Walt Whitman

Book cover of Flannelwood, with a black and white image of a handsome man with a salt and pepper beard and a furry chest, above an image of green forest trees

Flannelwood: A Novel

A quiet street in the downtown of a small town shows a few cars parked in the distance; large shadows cross the street. Above the town is a green-yellow-tint of a cloudy sky. Across the sky is the text COMPASSION, MICHIGAN. In the bottom of the street image is the text THE IRONWOOD STORIES | RAYMOND LUCZAK.

Compassion, Michigan: The Ironwood Stories

Against a hazy but colorful background is a solid white circle with a thick black border showing the text in purple: BOKEH FOCUS | RAYMOND LUCZAK.

Bokeh Focus

Bordered with a solid warm gold on the left, the colored illustration, mostly in warm gold tones, shows a youngish man with curly hair looking up to the sky and holding his outstretched hand up to the sky. Over his arm and background shows the text in white: ONCE UPON A TWIN | poems | RAYMOND LUCZAK.

once upon a twin: poems

Against a dark blue sky littered with constellations and a pair of branches, a naked long-haired faceless woman stands with a snake wrapped around her body in a drawing. The title LUNAFLY is on top and the author's name Raymond Luczak is below the woman.

Lunafly: Poems

A dense forest in a riot of fall foliage stands before a calm pond mirroring back the colors. Below the trees is a dark green soft-bordered box with the text in yellow and gray: CHLOROPHYLL | poems about michigan's upper peninsula | RAYMOND LUCZAK.

Chlorophyll: Poems about Michigan’s Upper Peninsula

Against a vignette-style blue background, a photo of a foghorn from below. It is centered and angled so that the slightly arched title text at the top of the cover resembles sound waves emerging from the horn. The title reads, A Quiet Foghorn, with the letters in the words a quiet in different pastel colors: yellow, green, blue, purple, orange, and red; the word foghorn in white. Smaller black text is the subtitle: more notes from a deaf gay life. At the bottom is the author’s name in white: Raymond Luczak.

A Quiet Foghorn: More Notes from a Deaf Gay Life

The tan sky overlooks part of the New York City skyline (the spire of Chrysler Building and the top of the Pan Am building (which is atop the Grand Central). The foreground shows mostly brown roofs of tenement buildings. Above it all is the text: First place winner of the Project: QueerLit 2006 Contest | MEN WITH THEIR HANDS | a deaf gay novel | RAYMOND LUCZAK.

Men With Their Hands: A Deaf Gay Novel (Second Edition)

In a soft golden light, a balding bearded middle-aged man closes his eyes while he cuddles a pillow sideways in red flannel. Across the top of his head is a early opaque white box with the title WIDOWER, 48, SEEKS HUSBAND in a dark mauve color. Across the man's shoulder near the bottom of the cover is the text "a novel" in black italics and the author's name Raymond Luczak in a dark mauve color.

Widower, 48, Seeks Husband: A Novel

Against a gray and overcast seascape in which there seems no discernible horizon, a dull rust-colored rock formation island with a squat tree bejeweled with orange leaves on top appears like a ship on a tranquil sea, its gentle waves the color of brown coal. Above the island is the title FAR FROM ATLANTIS. Below the book’s title is the subtitle “poems.” Far below on the cover is the author’s name RAYMOND LUCZAK.

Far From Atlantis: Poems

The painting shows a background slathered with thick slabs of paint ranging in colors from blue-gray, light-blue, and beige against which a muscular and hairy white man with a starting-to-gray beard stands naked with something of a questioning look in his face. The man is naked with the bottom edge of the cover cropping just below his belly. Spread across the man’s pectorals is the book’s title and subtitle (and the editor’s name) in gritty white and black capital letters: OH YEAH / A BEAR POETRY ANTHOLOGY / RAYMOND LUCZAK, EDITOR.

Oh Yeah: A Bear Poetry Anthology

From the left side of the book cover, some yellow oval leaves with brown spots hang closely to us. In the short distance, more such leaves hang against a bold blue sky. All leaves are mottled in a mix of bright sunlight and shadow. On the lower right corner is a large black circle with the title in white (YOOPER POETRY), its subtitle in gray (ON EXPERIENCING MICHIGAN’S UPPER PENINSULA), and its editor’s name in white (EDITED BY RAYMOND LUCZAK).

Yooper Poetry: On Experiencing Michigan’s Upper Peninsula

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: A Bestiary in English and ASL Gloss

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

Out of Print

book cover for Eyes of Desire: A Deaf & Gay Lesbian Reader, with two images of young queer people

Eyes of Desire: A Deaf Gay & Lesbian Reader

The black-and-white photograph shows a tall crane striking down a church spire. Above is the text ST. MICHAEL'S FALL | poems | RAYMOND LUCZAK.

St. Michael’s Fall: Poems

The solid red background with black bars on top and bottom show a black-and-white circular photograph of a fedora hat on a white background. Placed above and below the fedora hat, the text shows SNOOTY | a comedy | RAYMOND LUCZAK.

Snooty: A Comedy

Nine rows of black-and-white photographs showing people of all ages, skin colors, and so on are tinted in the six color of the pride rainbow flag with the text in black and lowercase: EYES OF DESIRE 2 | A DEAF GLBT READER | RAYMOND LUCZAK, EDITOR.

Eyes of Desire 2: A Deaf GLBT Reader

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