Racecar Jesus by Travis Mossotti
Racecar Jesus, winner of the Christopher Smart – Joan Alice Poetry Prize, turns the wheel of western spirituality with equal parts western skepticism, and the poems work toward practical enlightenment the way a bricklayer might; only, what they’re building is the opposite edifice:
…I am a ruin of questions.
Where once there was a temple, only pillars.
Where once a roof, now only clouds
and darkness interrupted by the jest of stars.
- excerpt from DINNER WITH MY SPIRITUAL ADVISOR AT PEACEMAKER
Racecar Jesus converts the sacred into the ordinary—or perhaps, it’s the other way around.
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