Böcker av 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. Racecar Jesus converts the sacred into the ordinary--or perhaps, it's the other way around.

These poems question the usefulness of wealth and ownership as markers of success. Taking wine fridges and fake flowers as emblems of capitalism's failure to assuage human loneliness, the speakers in these poems find joy in shared meals and glasses of wine, and use moments of mutual attention to challenge notions of class in America.