If you're set on using vim slime is great. Basically you bring up the REPL in another tmux or screen split then you can just pipe your forms to it.

https://github.com/jpalardy/vim-slime

Here's a few previews for fun books I enjoyed, land of lisp and realm of racket by conrad barski

https://books.google.ca/books/about/Realm_of_Racket.html?id=...

https://books.google.ca/books?id=9apQfCRhvm0C&printsec=front...