Animals out-There W-i-l-d: A Bestiary in English and ASL Gloss by Raymond Luczak

Cover of the book "Animals Out-There W-i-l-d" by Raymond Luczak. Features a brown background with orange and yellow accents. Includes a quote in a yellow circle and subtitles: "A Bestiary in English & ASL Gloss." Published by Unbound Edition Press.

Reviewer: Sharon Brunner Raymond Luczak’s Animals Out-There W-i-l-d: A Bestiary in English and ASL Gloss painted a picture of the beauty of nature, nature’s resilience, and the ugliness of human behavior. Luczak wrote about the animals, reptiles, and birds who live in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan (U.P.) Luczak grew…

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Yooper Poetry: On Experiencing Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, edited by Raymond Luczak

The cover of yooper poetry.

Review by Mack Hassler  An early prose poem in this excellent collection of Yooper Poetry contains the Finn word vaaramaki, which means “danger hill.”  The poem is by Kathleen M. Heideman who has some link to Finlandia University, formerly Suomi College, in Hancock.  It may be now that even Finlandia…

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Compassion, Michigan: The Ironwood Stories by Raymond Luczak

Compassion michigan the ironwood stories by raymond luczak.

Reviewer: Sharon Brunner Raymond Luczak’s book “Compassion, Michigan: The Ironwood Stories” presented tales of courageous women who lived in Ironwood, Michigan, a small town located at the west end of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan (U.P.). Many young men, during the late 1800s to the mid-1900s, fled to this community…

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