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Summary: A long time ago young men wishing to be tall _x000D_ scaled the mast of my octopus arms _x000D_ and scanned the horizon of Lake Superior _x000D_ for a glimmer of Canada. Usually we were cut down ..._x000D_ For many of those who've lived there, the Upper Peninsula of Michigan can seem like a magical place because nature there feels so potent and, at times, full of mystery. After having grown up there, Raymond Luczak can certainly attest to its mythical powers. In Chlorophyll, he reimagines Lake Superior and its environs as well as his houseplants as a variety of imaginary and historical characters. _x000D_ _x000D_ Ghosts dress in only gray and white. _x000D_ This is how they camouflage their volcanic selves. _x000D_ Lake Superior is bottled with them. _x000D_ You can't see them but they move like fish ..._x000D_ "In Raymond Luczak's Chlorophyll, the devastating natural beauty of Michigan's Upper Peninsula is imbued with passions its reticent human inhabitants are loathe to express. Trees, lakes, and stones air their infatuations, their grudges, their mythologies and griefs. Through this forest of the otherwise unsaid, we catch glimpses of a speaker who knows there is no line to blur between 'person' and 'nature.'" --Emily Van Kley, author of Arrhythmia and The Rust and the Cold_x000D_ Spring is a girl who's cried all night _x000D_ only to find that morning easily forgives _x000D_ the coldness of him having left her _x000D_ stranded among the thicket of evergreens ..._x000D_ "Giving voice to the natural world, Raymond Luczak allows the rocks, trees, lakes, insects, and flowers that are part of flora and fauna of the region to speak for themselves, and they remind us that we are human, living in a more than human world." --William Reichard, author of Our Delicate Barricades Downed and The Night Horse: New and Selected Poems |
