Mercy Wears a Red Dress

"In poem after poem, Craig helps us see his and our foolishness; still, the self-deprecating voice here is also the voice of wonder: how mysteriously and gracefully we get through our lives even when we are 'still everything we aren't.' Craig can be devilishly funny, heartbreaking, and profoundly searching as he examines all those human failures and frailties that make us all one another."

--Robert Cording, author of Only So Far



"In the past, Craig's poems have taken us through Midwestern bus stations, Browns' games, cab driving in Denver. These new ones explore God's challenge to live out our vocation in the domestic church. Mercy Wears a Red Dress brings a fresh, frank, and familiar voice to the life of Christian pilgrimage that makes it his most appealing and accomplished work to date. These are poems that help us see who we really are."

--James Matthew Wilson, author of The Fortunes of Poetry in an Age of Unmaking