godhouse

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By Ruth Ellen Kocher

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godhouse explores the human body as a profound intersection of the infinite and the mortal. Ruth Ellen Kocher's poetry centres on the raced and gendered body, illustrating it as a sacred union of god and soul, alive with the turbulent interplay of love, hate, joy, and despair. These poems render the body a sacred vessel where cosmic and personal histories collide, celebrating both the celestial and the fleshly, the glorious and the monstrous aspects of personhood.
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This collection will resonate with lovers of contemporary poetry, especially readers interested in explorations of identity, cosmology, and the body as a site of spiritual and political significance. It suits those who appreciate lyric innovation and the weaving of personal and universal themes.

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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 centring 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.

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Major Jackson praises godhouse for its lyrical brilliance and intellectual depth, calling it a "viral expansion of light" that reveals complex tenderness. Brenda Cárdenas highlights Kocher's innovative style and thematic range, noting how the collection navigates between terror and beauty, embracing personal, mythical, ecological, and socio-political dimensions as embodied realities. The collection is also described as anticipating grief, with a fierce and resilient speaker who confronts shadowy worlds with defiance.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781632431165

Publisher: Omnidawn Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 30 November 2023

Country: United States

Imprint: Omnidawn Publishing

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 6.0mm

Height: 9.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 150

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Arts & Culture Non-Fiction Poetry Ruth Ellen Kocher

About the Author

Ruth Ellen Kocher is the author of seven books: Third Voice, winner of the PEN Open Book Award; Ending in Planes; Goodbye Lyric: The Gigans and Lovely Gun; domina Un/blued, which won the Dorset Prize and the 2014 PEN/Open Book Award; One Girl Babylon, winner of the Green Rose Prize; When the Moon Knows You’re Wandering; and Desdemona’s Fire. She is a contributing editor at Poets & Writers Magazine and has been named a distinguished professor of English at the University of Colorado.

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