godhouse

<b>Poems that consider the human body as a meeting place of the infinite and the mortal.</b><br>  <br> Starting with the idea that the human experience is the universe looking back at itself <i>godhouse</i> 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 <i>godhouse</i> 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.<br>