Bokeh Focus: Poems
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With Bokeh Focus, Raymond Luczak trains his photographer’s eye as a gay man upon his subjects and examines the impact of imagery on one’s own identity.
Raymond Luczak is the author and editor of 25 titles, including Compassion, Michigan: The Ironwood Stories (Modern History Press) and once upon a twin: poems (Gallaudet University Press, forthcoming in February 2021). His other poetry titles include Mute (A Midsummer Night’s Press) and A Babble of Objects (Fomite Press). He lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Raymond Luczak
Raymond Luczak is the author and editor of twenty books. Titles include The Kinda Fella I Am: Stories and QDA: A Queer Disability Anthology. His Deaf gay novel Men with Their Hands won first place in the Project: QueerLit Contest 2006. His work has been nominated nine times for the Pushcart Prize. He lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He can be found online at raymondluczak.com.
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Bokeh Focus - Raymond Luczak
BOKEH FOCUS
poems
RAYMOND LUCZAK
Poetry Center Chapbook Exchange
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POETRY TITLES BY THE AUTHOR
once upon a twin
A Babble of Objects
The Kiss of Walt Whitman Still on My Lips
How to Kill Poetry
Road Work Ahead
Mute
This Way to the Acorns
St. Michael’s Fall
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
These poems have previously appeared in the following journals:
Hibernation and Other Poems by Bear Bards (Ron J. Suresha, ed.; Bear Bones Books): Us Middle-Aged Men.
Perverse Pleasures (Carter Lynn Thurmond, ed.; Queer Antics Press): Trickle/Tsunami.
RFD: How I’d Laughed.
SOFTBLOW: Haloes.
The author thanks Melissa Eleftherion Carr, David Cummer, Elise Ficarra, Eric Thomas Norris, and Mark Ward for their assistance.
COPYRIGHT
Bokeh Focus: Poems.
Copyright © 2020 by Raymond Luczak.
Cover design: Mona Z. Kraculdy.
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