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| If only love could transcend time ... In The Kiss of Walt Whitman Still on My Lips, Raymond Luczak recounts his unrequited love for a gardener while examining how Walt Whitman (1819–1892) lived as a gay man 150 years before. Inspired by the earthy passions abundant in Whitman’s work and the vast social changes between his era and ours, the story becomes an urgent love letter in more ways than one. “The Kiss of Walt Whitman Still on My Lips is an unabashed celebration of one man’s relationship to Walt Whitman: poet, publisher, lover, impromptu nurse, artistic creation, organism, man in full. Like Whitman himself, Raymond Luczak arrives at an unified vision of love in all of its poetic manifestations: sensual, sexual, and textual, a source of electric vistas and voluptuous possibilities of spiritual renewal. He provides precisely the kind of tender reassurance we cannot find words for some nights, but which we so desperately need.” —Eric Thomas Norris, co-author of Nocturnal Omissions “In The Kiss of Walt Whitman Still on My Lips, Raymond Luczak has awoken entwined in the arms of the American bard. And here is the bed chat and letters from one poet to another, a communion of fleshly living. Luczak has created a work in the tradition of Ginsberg's odyssean dreaming of the lost America of love—a vibrant examination of what Whitman called a ‘richest fluency’ of historical gaiety and modern loving, and a clear transmission of honest affection across the ages.” —Dan Vera, author of Speaking Wiri Wiri About the Author: Raymond Luczak is the author and editor of over 30 books, including QDA: A Queer Disability Anthology, How to Kill Poetry, and Men with Their Hands. He lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota. ISBN: 978-1-941960-03-5 104 pages. 4" x 6" Paperback: $15.00 |
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See also:
When We Become Weavers: Queer Female Poets on the Midwestern Experience
Among the Leaves: Queer Male Poets on the Midwestern Experience
Queer & Celtic: On the Irish LGBT Experience
Lincoln Avenue: Chicago Stories
QDA: A Queer Disability Anthology
At Danceteria and Other Stories
It's Just Nerves: Notes on a Disability
London Skin & Bones: The Finsbury Park Stories
That Was Something: A Novel
Lovejets: Queer Male Poets on 200 Years of Walt Whitman
We Are Not Your Metaphor: A Disability Poetry Anthology
Better Davis and Other Stories
CHAPS Poetry Series
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