“Religion can be found inside a Walkman. Inside a radio

song. Inside the lines that define our own sense of The

Word. Inside Sacrilegious it is here we are reminded that

if we read between the rhymes of the past and the news

of the present, we might understand the true prophecy of

hip-hop culture. Chris L. Butler brilliantly weaves his

narrative style of poetry with the erasures of the rap

canon to show how life can have you ‘reciting the

soliloquies of Shakur more than the parables of Jesus’.”

—Chris Margolin, Editor-in-Chief of THE POETRY

QUESTION

"Chris L. Butler ignites every single page with poems

that burn in your brain. His combination of hip hop with

the battles of religion and secularism have you staring in

astonishment, while still nodding to the rhythms of his

words. Between form poems, free verse, and erasure

poems, Butler hits every note in the emotional chord.”

—Ran Walker, award-winning author of KEEP IT 100

and A BURST OF GRAY