godhouse

By Ruth Ellen Kocher

Poems that consider the human body as a meeting place of the infinite and the mortal.

Starting with the idea that the human experience is the universe looking back at itself, godhouse takes the notion a few steps further by centering cosmology within a raced and gendered body. Ruth Ellen Kocher's poems envision this body as a union of god and soul that, within our material world, encompasses love and hate, joy and despair. The body is a site of divine presence made mortal, electrified with the resonance of both the infinite and the human. In godhouse, we encounter the body as a site where the universe is made personal and celebratory, where the celestial endure the complications of flesh and friction forms between the glorious and the monstrous aspects of personhood.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1632431165
• ISBN13: 9781632431165
• Release Date: November 2023
• Publisher: Omnidawn
• Length: 140 Pages
• Weight: 0.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.9"