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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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godhouse

godhouse

Kocher, Ruth Ellen

Paperback

General Poetry

ISBN10: 1632431165
ISBN13: 9781632431165
Publisher: Omnidawn
Published: Nov 30 2023
Pages: 140
Weight: 0.48
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
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.

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