Join us for First Friday with The Lunas
(Christopher Luna, Toni Lumbrazo Luna, and Angelo Luna) featuring the Vancouver
book launch for Christopher Luna's Voracity (Lightship Press, 2022).
From Birdhouse Books: "It’s a
family affair: Christopher Luna, Toni Lumbrazo Luna, and Angelo Luna will be
joining us for the return of our First Friday Poetry Series!
Christopher Luna, co-host of Ghost Town
Poetry Open Mic and co-founder of Printed Matter Vancouver, has just released
his new poetry collection, VORACITY, from Lightship Press, and will be joined
by his wife Toni Lumbrazo Luna, co-founder of Printed Matter Vancouver and
local poetry powerhouse, and his son Angelo Luna, who co-authored the
father-son poetry collection EXCHANGING WISDOM."
Angelo Luna, Toni Lumbrazo Luna, and Christopher Luna in Rochester, NY November 2019Photo by Maria Vara
7pm
Friday, January 6
Birdhouse Books
1001 Main Street Basement
Vancouver, WA 98660
Voracity, featuring poetry and collages
by Christopher Luna, is now available from Lightship Press or the author: christopherjluna@gmail.com.
"Brutally honest confessional poetry,
Christopher Luna's Voracity conjures a beatific earnestness which transcends
pain and suffering through acts of lyrical, life-affirming grace and
redemption." David Madgalene, author of Call Down the Angel
In this revealing poetry collection,
Luna invites readers on a candid and intimate journey behind the mask of a
public figure as he grapples with identity, body image, and the enormity of his
hungers."
Driven By Hope by Toni Lumbrazo Luna
Printed Matter Vancouver, 2019
Driven By Hope is Toni Lumbrazo Luna’s
third book of poetry. It contains glimpses into the lives of people she has met
throughout her career as a Social Worker and Life/Career Coach. These poems are
based on real life and Toni takes them to new places inside her imagination.
Perhaps you will see yourself through her eyes. Order Driven By Hope here:
https://www.amazon.com/Driven-Hope-Toni.../dp/1070872970/
Exchanging Wisdom: A Guide for Parents
of the Autonomous
The Poetry Box, 2021
Exchanging Wisdom features poems for and
about Christopher’s son Angelo Luna, as well as a few pieces Angelo wrote for
Christopher. The earliest poem was written when Angelo was three, and the most
recent at age 21. Christopher endeavored to encourage his son to be an
autonomous, freethinking individual. Angelo grew to become that and so much
more. Taken as a whole, the poems in this collection track the development of
Angelo’s personality and the strong bond between father and son.
Christopher Luna is a true heir to the
Beat and New York School traditions of candor and grandeur. This collaboration
and celebration of life runs on impeccable timing and deep love. As Luna and
his son Angelo exchange wisdom they also re-invent the meaning of open verse:
these poems crack open the heart and spill the joy of parenthood into the
world.
—Lisa Jarnot, author
Robert Duncan, the Ambassador from Venus
One day you’re gonna have to…remind me
how to believe in the basic goodness of all beings, Christopher Luna tells his
son, Angelo, in his latest book, Exchanging Wisdom. More than a collection of
father-son poems, Exchanging Wisdom is a record of gratitude. Luna knows that
to be a parent is to be both teacher and pupil, vulnerable and responsible. In
every poem Luna’s love beams: Like Lone Wolf and Cub we traversed…and you
reminded me that magic is real…. These poems contemplate our never-ending wars,
sickness, apathy, and art-making through the lens of a deeply reverent father.
For some, being a parent, being the adult, is synonymous with having the
answers. Luna, a Buddhist poet, community-organizer, and activist, reminds us
that questioning is the only way to truth. What are you afraid to find? he
wonders. Are these the right questions to ask? In these mind- and heart-opening
poems Luna invites us to experience pure joy and wonder again through memory
and thankfulness. Once you’ve opened those doors/ you need never do so again,
asserts Luna. Once father you cannot go back to your former life. Thankfully
for us, Luna never did.
—Claudia F. Savage, author of Bruising
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