Godhouse

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.


Author: Ruth Ellen Kocher
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Omnidawn
Published: 11/30/2023
Pages: 140
Weight: 0.48lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9781632431165