Poems that consider the human body as a meeting place of the infinite and the mortal.
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..
The body is a site of divine presence made mortal, electrified with the resonance of both the infinite and the human.
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.
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.
Poems that consider the human body as a meeting place of the infinite and the mortal