Racecar Jesus by Travis Mossotti

Description

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 theyre 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 Jesusconverts the sacred into the ordinaryor perhaps, its the other way around.

The Black Spring Press Group