Green Jesus

by Nathanael Tagg

In Green Jesus, Nathanael Tagg's second collection of poetry, readers encounter a trinity: spiritual, environmental, and relational. The book is inspired by Tagg's growing up in evangelical Christianity and expanding his worldview thanks to education, nature, writing, long-distance running, marriage, and parenthood. This coming-of-age story not only touches on disillusionment and rebirth; it also highlights the amusing ironies of continuity between then and now, sacred and secular, parent and child, intellectual and athletic, human and nonhuman, historical and contemporary, and so forth. Although stories and identities may break down upon closer inspection, many pieces-if not held too tightly-are still usable and valuable.

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