Stripped down and roaring to life, Burning Rubber is a raw, high-octane collection of poetry that tears through the American landscape with smoke in its wake. Samuel Ludke delivers verse like a drag racer hits pavement-fast, loud, and unrelenting. These poems live in the spaces between muscle cars and midnight highways, in the gasoline-soaked dreams of youth, love, rebellion, and freedom. A tribute to speed, grit, and the hearts that break trying to outrun the past, Burning Rubber doesn't slow down for anything. With a voice equal parts asphalt and elegy, Ludke captures the rhythm of engines and the ache of leaving something behind.