godhouse

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.

“Godhouse reveals the gorgeously pitched trajectory of Kocher’s lyric powers and blazing intellect, where language beguilingly constellates and historizes and frees the body eternally into a vast monument. My admiration is boundless at how these poems transmit the hidden with elegance and brings to fore a complex tenderness I had not known I desired, ‘a viral expansion of light.’”