God in Her Ruffled Dress

By Lisa B (Lisa Bernstein)

God in Her Ruffled Dress enacts conversations between illness and wellness, body and spirit, the temporal and the eternal. These poems chart a personal investigation of the divine, in which erotic desire is central, feminist awareness is inherent, and gender is many-faceted. But the spark for each poem is not ideology, but rather, a lyrical impulse to search and illuminate.

Bookended by two poem-prayers, the book's four sections move from healing to various forms of creating:

- "Return to the Body" includes poems on Lisa B's longstanding type 1 diabetes, Biblical scripture, and spiritual transformation.

- "Drum the Beginning of the World" focuses on the human/divine interface through the lens of singing and music, with homages to jazz masters and poems on the author's own practice as a vocalist.

- "Sever the Head" is inspired by pandemic politics.

- Finally, "Propagate" probes love, sensuality, birth, and death.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0CLJ62FS1
• ISBN13: 9798986625867
• Release Date: October 2023
• Publisher: What Books Press
• Length: 110 Pages
• Weight: 0.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"