Conjuring Jesus

Provocative and alluring, Conjuring Jesus presents a disarmingly fresh portrait of the figure of Jesus. In poems disruptive and devotional, controversial and contemplative, it reveals a man moved by a persistent impulse toward sinuous reshaping and a liberating awareness of his own sexuality. {Guernica Editions} Offering a disarmingly fresh picture of Jesus as a mystic and poet, while still closely based on biblical texts, these poems are disruptive yet devotional, startling yet reassuring. They portray Jesus in his tumultuous times as well as moments of transcendence, revealing a resolute, aware, and liberated man of his times. Presents a fresh picture of Jesus as a mystic, a mischievous reformer, and a poet of the sensuous. This book portrays him in his tumults and his moments of transcendence, his musings and stories, and his diverse encounters with women and men.