God in Her Ruffled Dress

<p><em>God in Her Ruffled Dress</em> 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.</p><p><br></p><p>Bookended by two poem-prayers the book's four sections move from healing to various forms of creating: </p><p><br></p><p>- Return to the Body includes poems on Lisa B's longstanding type 1 diabetes Biblical scripture and spiritual transformation. </p><p> </p><p>- 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. </p><p> </p><p>- Sever the Head is inspired by pandemic politics.</p><p>  </p><p>- Finally Propagate probes love sensuality birth and death.</p>