<p>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.</p>

Road Work Ahead

Literature & Fiction

Luczak, Raymond

Poetry

Sibling Rivalry Press

A richly detailed evocation of growing up deaf, Catholic, and oral in a small Michigan town (Ironwood) during the 1970s. Witty, comical, tragic, ironic, intimate, and epic, told in Luczak’s unique “voice.”

St. Michael's Fall

Deaf Life Pr

<p>Raymond Luczak, poet, playwright, and filmmaker, hands us Silence is a Four-Letter Word, as his call to arms for deaf artists everywhere. He uses a cross-platform approach - a short story, a series of rapid-fire mini-essays, a short play, and a self-interview - to illuminate his points. His meditations on what makes art "art" and deafness "deaf" asks artists everywhere to rethink observations on their work and live differently.</p>

Silence is a Four-Letter Word: On Art & Deafness

United States

Tactile Mind Press

As a boy, 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 forget the stark reality of death, or, ultimately, the forgiving power of seasons. This Way to the Acorns is a flinty-eyed ode to that overpowering sense of childhood wonder.

This Way to the Acorns: Poems

Tactile Mind Pr Llc

Snooty: A Comedy

Dramas & Plays

Sylvia Plath Made Me Do It: A Story in Verse

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.

Mute (Body Language, 6)

A Midsummer Night's Press

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 forget the stark reality of death, or, ultimately, the forgiving power of the seasons. This Way to the Acorns is a flinty-eyed ode to that overpowering sense of childhood wonder. An afterword by the author is included in this tenth anniversary edition.

Handtype Press

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 form of quick bursts of opinion arrived at over his many years as a poet, playwright, and filmmaker, Luczak seeks to shake deaf artists out of the cages built by the hearing world . . . There are plenty of opinions to argue with in this volume. Yet Luczak calls us to ask important questions of ourselves." - Emily Drabinski, Out

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

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

“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 community’s members. Written to be signing-driven, these plays feature Deaf characters from the various strata of Deaf society. Each play centers on different yet equally familiar issues.Snooty brings to life the difficulties of surviving the social pecking order in a deaf residential school. The main character’s only escape is a rich fantasy life in which he is in control. Doogle confronts its characters with the intrusion of technological communication devices parallel to the virtually forced intimacy of such a small, close community. Brought into stark focus by the specter of AIDS, Love in My Veins explores how trust, betrayal, and ultimately forgiveness can transform a Deaf couple’s love for each other in a Deaf community. The collection’s eponymous Whispers of a Savage Sort reveals the relentless damage that rumor and innuendo can do to a diverse group of Deaf individuals. The emotions, identities, and consequences created by Luczak in these dramas illuminate the Deaf American community in fascinating detail rarely seen in any medium today.

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

Gallaudet University Press

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Road Work Ahead

St. Michael's Fall

Silence is a Four-Letter Word: On Art & Deafness

This Way to the Acorns: Poems

Snooty: A Comedy

Sylvia Plath Made Me Do It: A Story in Verse

Mute (Body Language, 6)

This Way to the Acorns: Poems

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

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