This Way to the Acorns: Poems - Softcover

Luczak, Raymond

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0979881625 ISBN 13: 9780979881626

Publisher: Handtype Press, 2012

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author

Raymond Luczak's other books are Silence is a Four-Letter Word: On Art & Deafness and St. Michael's Fall: Poems. He wrote and directed the films Ghosted and Some Women. His plays include Snooty and Whispers of a Savage Sort.

Review

"Raymond Luczak has written a book of such grace and grave joy that I think it must be read." -- Ned O' Gorman, author of Five Seasons of Obsessions: New and Selected Poems

Edition details

• Publisher: Handtype Press
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0979881625
• ISBN 13: 9780979881626
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 90