Bøger af Ruth Ellen Kocher

A surreal poetry collection considering memory and self-discovery through the character of the archon, the keeper of the mental archive. In Ruth Ellen Kocher's Archon / After, the archive is revealed as both a form of violence and of memory, of site and of event. As keeper of the archive, Kocher's archon determines what pieces of the past may be preserved, housed, documented, ordered, and reviewed. Through these poems, the archon dives deep into memories and into the mysteries of daily life, and, in governance over the future, determines what will be and should be forgotten. The act of forgetting becomes archival violence, with the archon not only serving as the guardian of what remains in the archive but also as an eradicator who decides what is purged. The imagistic and surreal language of this collection invites us to explore a non-logical terrain as we follow the protagonist into her darkest memories and find a path for our own journey of self-discovery.

Ending in Planes occupies itself with language and location. The poems ask the reader to receive the word without expectation, as playful utterance and sometimes allegory shaped at the horizons of the page.

domina Un/blued dislocates the traditional slave narrative, placing the slave's utterance within the map and chronicle of conquest. Charting a diaspora of the human spirit as well as a diaspora of an individual body, Ruth Ellen Kocher's award-winning new book reaches beyond the story of historical involuntary servitude to explore enslavements of devotion and desire, which in extremity slide into addiction and carnal bondage.

"If the human experience is the equivalent of the universe looking back at itself, godhouse takes that notion a few steps further by centering cosmology in a raced and gendered body, in a union of god and soul that, within our material world, easily vacillates between love and hate, joy and despair. The body manifests as divine presence made mortal, as an infinity singing the generative human arc of being-ness with an electric resonance. In godhouse, the reader encounters the universe made personal and celebratory, as an infinity that endures the complications of flesh and the necessary resistance to our most ungodly and monstrous expressions of personhood"--