Racecar Jesus

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.